At 09:46 AM 4/27/99 +1000, Alex Satrapa wrote:
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>Well... consider for a moment the difference between "Intellectual Work"
>and "Resource". I may want a copy of the work, but I don't want it in
>Microsoft Word format. I'll take it in RTF or HTML. So I go to your
>database, searching for the particular work, with the specification that
>I only want it in RTF or HTML.
>
>If you had only created two records, one for each translation in the
>format of your choice, then I'd be stuck.
I don't see why you assume that you can't retrieve these records with your
search. We put multiple subject headings in a record, and one subject
heading doesn't negate the other. Right now, the MARC format allows a
single record to be retrievable with more than one document format (i.e. a
document can be both a score and a serial; a computer file and a score; and
for composite items it can be both a book and a CD). Have multiple access
points to a record is not rocket science -- it's actually the norm.
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