From: Till K. <kin...@gm...> - 2010-04-27 15:01:31
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Barnett, Jeffrey schrieb: > According to http://www.loc.gov/marc/bibliographic/bd005.html “Field 005 > should be system generated” Hmm, 005 seems "semantically wrong" to me, because it holds a timestamp of the latest change of a record. We have a similar data field that changes often because of catalogers or batch jobs updating a data record (but not the item it describes). I don't think that's suitable to detect "new items" (and that's what users are more interested in than in changes in metadata records, I guess). (BTW: our MARCish exports even don't have 005 fields, though I don't claim our MARCish exports are good)... 008 0-5 ("Date entered on file") seems more appropriate for MARC records. Though that may have its problems, too: For example in our catalogs, data records may be created far before an item is available for users... Till |