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On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 2:03 PM, Eric Lease Morgan <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > "MARC must die. Long live MARC." > Speaking as a "non-library computer type," let me say "MARC must die. MARC must die." MARC21 bib data is a mess of "hopefully-unique" strings, inlined punctuation, and arcane rules that do a good job describing data in a way that will make any programmer weep into her cheep vodka. MARC the data format is a straightjacket that restricts not only the data we can put in it but the ability to people schooled in its use to think about the data in any other way. Both must go. -- Bill Dueber Library Systems Programmer University of Michigan Library