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Hahn, Harvey wrote: >>Surely *the* most anachronistic exercise is ISBD punctuation. This >>was stupid in the original version of MARC and makes even less sense >>over the years. [a significant amount of history snipped which underscores the point that ISBD punctuation is for catalogue cards and wishful thinkers] > It's probably possible to strip out current punctuation (ISBD prescribed > or older styles) between subfields, but I doubt anybody's (LC, OCLC, > etc.) ever going to do it unless there's a groundswell for change in how > catalogs should display data. As I said earlier, it should really be up > to the display software (whether a cataloging editor or an OPAC) to > insert separating punctuation "on the fly" if desired. ... and the net effect is that we end up doing all sorts of hacks to re-normalize the data. The madness must stop! Roy, is there a bandwagon that I can get on? Walter