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I strongly oppose using any HTML mark-up in MARC records - this should be the domain of the OPAC to render things appropriately. URIs for images are fine, but is subfield z appropriate as well? I'd be inclined to use a subfield 9 since it's purposely designed for local use. Mark A. Matienzo Applications Developer, Digital Experience Group The New York Public Library On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 4:12 PM, Doran, Michael D<[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Is anybody else embedding HTML mark-up code in MARC records [1]? We're currently including an "<img>" tag in some MARC Holdings records in the 856z [2]. I'm inclined to think that HTML mark-up does not belong anywhere in MARC records, but am looking for other opinions (preferably with the reasoning behind the opinions), both pro and con. > > I'm asking on code4lib as well as the voyager-l list in order to get a mix of ILS-specific and ILS-agnostic opinions (I'm not on any cataloging lists, or would probably ask there, too). I tried googling this topic, but couldn't find anything of consequence; so if I've missed something there, and you could point me to it, I'd be obliged. > > -- Michael > > [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML > > [2] http://www.loc.gov/marc/holdings/hd856.html > > # Michael Doran, Systems Librarian > # University of Texas at Arlington > # 817-272-5326 office > # 817-688-1926 mobile > # [log in to unmask] > # http://rocky.uta.edu/doran/ >