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MARC Problems

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Things Difficult or Impossible to Do With Our Data
This is a clear user need, that I'd like to be able to tell them, when I know they are interested in a particular volume/issue. I guess MFHD is _theoretically_ capable of expressing this. But hardly anyone's ILS is actually going to produce anything that can be machine-interpreted. And I'm not even sure MFHD can express it -- if you think that ISBD-like standard for using punctuation and such to express 'runs' counts, forget about it, that doesn't really result in unambiguous machine-parseable statements even when users don't make mistakes entering it, which they do.
 
== Series title: what transcribed series name goes with which controlled series name? ==
 
Without being able to figure out what transcribed name (490) corresponds with which controlled series name (8xx), it's pretty impossible to figure out how to create a display which makes any sense, and doesn't list the same series twice (once with transcribed name and once with controlled name), and supports collocation properly. See more at: http://bibwild.wordpress.com/2009/09/24/a-reasonable-display-for-series-data-in-marc
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