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My apologies, I hit send before I was finished! The ISO abbreviations (I believe) reflect the spelling of the language in that same language, so "Croatian" is "hrv", Moldovian/Romanian is abbreviated "rum" (Rumanian). Best, Tessa On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 3:44 PM, Tessa Fallon <[log in to unmask]>wrote: > HRV=Hrvatska=Croatia. > Cheers, > > Tessa > > > On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 2:52 PM, Michele R Combs <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > >> Last month we upgraded our library search interface to a new tool which >> reads various things from MARC records to enable easy faceted searches, for >> example publication date, language, etc. Some weird stuff showed up in the >> language facet, and in investigating it, we uncovered an interesting factoid >> which I thought I'd share. EAD says that @LANGCODE in the LANGMATERIAL >> element should use the ISO 639.2 codes; however, our new search tool >> recognizes only MARC codes. So I mapped the two to see how different they >> were, and it turns out the two code lists are identical apart from three >> instances. Interestingly, all three are Eastern European languages -- >> Croatian (ISO code hrv and MARC code scr), Moldavian (ISO code rum and MARC >> code mol), and Serbian (ISO code srp and MARC code scc). >> >> Anyone have any idea where/why they came up with "hrv" for Croatian?? >> >> Michele >> >> (be green - don't print this email!) >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >> Michele Combs >> Manuscripts Librarian >> Special Collections Research Center >> Syracuse University Libraries >> 222 Waverly Ave. >> Syracuse, NY 13244 >> 315-443-2081 >> [log in to unmask] >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >> > >