I've begun what may be a very slow process to create an actionable map
from RDA to MARC. Although Appendix D has the mapping between them as
text, the mapping isn't rigorous. In addition, it becomes obvious that
RDA and MARC function at different levels of granularity, such as:
$a Personal name
*9.2.2 Preferred Name for the Person*
$b Numeration
*9.2.2 Preferred Name for the Person*
Some of the elements that we might need are found in FRAD, not RDA.
I may give up on this, but it seems to be the only way to know whether
we can create a record from RDA that is interoperable with legacy data.
I'm not looking to match MARC 1-to-1, but it will be good to know what
the differences are.
If anyone has gone further along in this exercise, I'd like to hear from
you.
kc
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