Michael Hopwood writes:
> 1) Your own vocabulary (even if it is substantially made up of re-used
>    terms, it still has its own identity)
>
> 2) Mappings to others' vocabularies

At which point I don't feel like the community is any better off than we
are now, where each major library has its own tweaks to MARC that
consumers need to deal with. We're trading one thing for another. This
is especially true once you start account for international records.

    -tree

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Tom Emerson
Principal Software Engineer, Search
EBSCO Publishing
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