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My approach would be to use only numbers from those 035s which contain the "(OCoLC)" prefix, since that seems to be what OCLC produces.  Wouldn't get all possible OCLC numbers, but it catches the only case where I'm confident that the field has an OCLC number.

-Tod

On Jan 12, 2011, at 1:01 PM, Cory Rockliff wrote:

Wouldn't one problem be the different places an OCLC number can occur in

a MARC record? Depending on the ILS and its configuration, it can wind

up in 001, 035, 907, etc., and without a prefix like '(OCoLC),' which

isn't always present, there's no way to distinguish an OCLC number

programmatically from any other identifier...

On 1/12/11 1:46 PM, Guenther, Rebecca wrote:

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

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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

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