Hello, hello, hello. I realize this isn't an exciting question, but as 
there are programs performing this action already it should be a fairly 
straight-forward one to answer. Anyone? If you are using BIBFRAME surely 
you know the answer, or can point me to the document that provides it.

Thanks,
kc

On 4/15/15 11:35 AM, Karen Coyle wrote:
> I apologize if this information is covered somewhere in the BIBFRAME 
> documentation but I wasn't able to find it, nor could I glean it from 
> what I looked at in the code in github. (Maybe I just ran out of 
> patience.)
>
> It appears that every BIBFRAME "record" that is generated from a MARC 
> record is given a work title, whether or not the MARC record contains 
> a uniform title (130 or 240).
>
> 1) is this the case?
> 2) if so, is the work title derived from the title proper (245) in the 
> MARC record?
> 3) if so, what subfields of the 245 are included in the work title?
> 4) If more than one 245 subfield is included in the work title
>   a) are they combined into a single string?
>   b) are they combined into a single string in a specific order?
>   c) is there any manipulation (dropping or adding) of punctuation?
>
> Thanks,
> kc
>

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