Mac, I believe I covered that in the "issues" section. The complication there is the assumption that 1 barcode = 1 thing = one Item. In moving to something like RDF, the Utlas and MARC repeatable "units of info" would probably be indistinguishable, since there is no concept of tags and subfields, just graphs of related statements. kc On 1/14/15 12:23 PM, J. McRee Elrod wrote: > Karen said: > >> If you have 2 copies, you have two of these Item graphs. > What about multi-volume sets and serials? Would they too require > these for each volume? > > We found the old Utlas method (single 090 with holdings, location, and > remarks in $c$d$f$r) for more efficient than MARC's repeating 852. I > would favour something more like Utlas' less complex method in > Bibframe. Why ignore past successful methods? > > > __ __ J. McRee (Mac) Elrod ([log in to unmask]) > {__ | / Special Libraries Cataloguing HTTP://www.slc.bc.ca/ > ___} |__ \__________________________________________________________ -- Karen Coyle [log in to unmask] http://kcoyle.net m: +1-510-435-8234 skype: kcoylenet/+1-510-984-3600