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On Jun 22, 2009, at 5:53 PM, Cloutman, David wrote: > From the perspective of a programmer, rather than a cataloguer, my > opinion is firmly no, HTML does not belong in your MARC records. > > In application development, general best practice is to separate > information systems into layers, splitting data from "business > logic" and "presentation logic". MARC stores data, and HTML belongs > to presentation. Though it may sound like a good idea today to put > HTML into a MARC record, that tag may be meaningless down the road > when some other technology is used to present your record data. If > you wish to present data in HTML, you are much better off leaving > the HTML out of your MARC, and allowing the application to generate > tags. I whole-heartedly concur, and I could not hardly have said it any better than David. Adding mark-up to a data structure like that only confuses the issue and is asking for trouble down the road. -- Eric Lease Morgan