On 3/7/13 3/7/13 € 1:32 PM, "J. McRee Elrod" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> What's the point of
> transferring an element from MARC to Bibframe (no matter how
> prelevant) if not utiliZed in ILSs? Why consdider dropping an element
> (regardles of how rare) which is always utilized if present?
What happened in the past can inform, but it should not be allowed to limit,
our vision for the future. That isn't to say that knowing how the data has
been used (or not) in current systems wouldn't be interesting, but neither
is it a requirement for creating a new future. Knowing what data currently
exists is.
Roy
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