Mac Elrod wrote:

> Tom created a prototype entry screen:
>
> Main Author
> Title Proper
> Other Title
> Statement of Responsibility
> Place of Publication
> Publisher
> Date of Publication
> Extent
> Illustrations
> Size
>
> Umm. Where is the distinction between surname and forename entry,
> required by MARC? Corporate main entry vs. personal main entry?
[etc.]
> This type of entry screen would work for a minority of the material we
> catalogue.
>
> I still like those numbers.

I thank Tom Meehan for posting his wonderful mockup (not prototype), which is only as illustration of the *kind* of thing that could (i.e., should) be done. I didn't take it as a proposal of exactly the elements that would be contained in a production environment. This is a great illustration of how we should be able to have data input in a non-MARC, non-HTML web form, and get output in whatever format is needed (MARC, XML, etc.). I would assume that the flavor of such a tool many catalogers will choose to employ will have separate boxes for all the specific RDA elements.

Kevin M. Randall
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Northwestern University Library
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