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That is the appropriate place.
As you probably know, we are not controlling the list of type values for identifier, although we may in the future establish a controlled vocabulary for it.
It makes sense to fix the stylesheet unless people using MODS object to retaining the OCLC number in a converted record.

Rebecca

Rebecca S. Guenther
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From: Metadata Object Description Schema List [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Tod Olson
Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2011 12:36 PM
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Subject: [MODS] OCLC number in MARC to MODS conversion

I have a situation where it would be useful to have the OCLC number preserved when a MARC record is converted to MODS, it would make some kinds of linking out from displays a bit more robust.  It seems that the OCLC number could go into a <identifier type='oclc'>.

Does anyone see a glaring problem with that idea?  Is there a better place that I'm overlooking?

Would there be any interest in a patch to MARC21slim2MODS3-4.xsl for this operation?

-Tod


Tod Olson <[log in to unmask]>
Systems Librarian
University of Chicago Library