Hi, Right now I'm not able to find out the document where I read about the tentative date of Q1 2018. It came up during one of the post on the PCC. activities. What I can share right now is - http://alcts.ala.org/ccdablog/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/PCC-2017-06.pdf See the section "The PCC is moving forward to implement the recommendations of the PCC ISBD and MARC Task Group, which call for eliminating ISBD punctuation that coincides with MARC coding. As a first step, OCLC and LC are creating test sets of records and a small group is being formed to track the testing and analyze results." The details of what punctuation to remove / replace is available here - http://www.loc.gov/aba/pcc/documents/isbdmarc2016.pdf cheers idg -- Indranil Das Gupta L2C2 Technologies Phone : +91-98300-20971 WWW : http://www.l2c2.co.in Blog : http://blog.l2c2.co.in IRC : indradg on irc://irc.freenode.net Twitter : indradg On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 4:40 AM, Paul A <paul.a@navalmarinearchive.com> wrote:
On 2017-09-14 04:09 AM, Indranil Das Gupta wrote: /snip/
Come Q1 2018 there is expected to start a pilot program to remove punctuation from MARC records
Could you please give some references to this? I'll be happy to believe that it's a "good thing", but it sounds more like a catastrophe and/or an IT nightmare. Remove punctuation from records, add them back in templates or whatever to make them human readable; retrain all cataloguers; demolish tens of millions LoC, BL, NLF, LAC records?
I'd like to read more...
Best -- P.
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