Re: Clarification on MARC::Simple Intent

2003-11-19 Thread Chuck Bearden
On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 09:16:20AM +0100, Tajoli Zeno wrote: > Hi to all, > > At 01.52 19/11/03, Morbus Iff wrote: > [...] > >Is that something anyone would be interested in? I suspect there are a huge > >amount of problems with the approach (most prominently that the idea of > >using tag numbers

Re: USEMARCON v1.4 [was Re: Clarification on MARC::Simple Intent]

2003-11-19 Thread Ed Summers
On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 10:29:42AM +, Ben Soares wrote: > I haven't used it so can't really say anything from experience, but it's > developed on behalf of the British Library so it's from a highly credible > source. Thanks for the pointer to USEMARCON. I hadn't heard about it, and the topic

USEMARCON v1.4 [was Re: Clarification on MARC::Simple Intent]

2003-11-19 Thread Ben Soares
On Wed, 19 November, 2003 08:16, Tajoli Zeno wrote: > > In fact I don't subscribe this type of changes. > Why ? > Because they hard coded in the module the USMARC/MARC21 standard. > > There different flouvers of MARC, the Library of Congress mantains USMARC > . > For example I use Unimarc, mantaine

Re: Clarification on MARC::Simple Intent

2003-11-19 Thread Tajoli Zeno
Hi to all, At 01.52 19/11/03, Morbus Iff wrote: My assumption at the time was that the above MARC::Record methods also applied to MARC::Field objects, allowing creations like this: my $author = MARC::Field->new( '100',1,'', a => 'Logan, Robert K.', d => '1939-' );

Re: Clarification on MARC::Simple Intent

2003-11-18 Thread Chuck Bearden
On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 07:52:04PM -0500, Morbus Iff wrote: > Is that something anyone would be interested in? I suspect there are a huge > amount of problems with the approach (most prominently that the idea of > using > tag numbers was to reduce typing in the first place), but has anyone ever >

Re: Clarification on MARC::Simple Intent

2003-11-18 Thread Ed Summers
On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 07:52:04PM -0500, Morbus Iff wrote: > my $author = MARC::Field->new; > $author->author_name('Logan, Robert K.'); > $author->author_data('1939-'); > > my $title = MARC::Field->new; > $title->something("The alphabet effect /'; > $title->authority( $author->author_