Date:         Thu, 23 Mar 2006 14:30:13 -0500
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From:         "Rebecca S. Guenther" <[log in to unmask]>
Subject:      Re: About the 245$h
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Sorry, all, I've been away and didn't answer this promptly.

The MARC to MODS mapping at
http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-mapping.html
does not put 245$h in title. It puts it in physicalDescription with
authority="gmd". However, when we changed that (a few years ago) we
inadvertently left in the instruction concerning the order of subfields
after $n and $p, so they never got changed in the transformation. The
stylesheet does output 245$h as physicalDesription but only when it
follows $a and leaves $h with the title if it follows other
subfields. This is an error. So we have just fixed the stylesheet so that
$h always goes into physicalDescription. We will also fix the mapping.

Rebecca
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On Thu, 16 Mar 2006, Ross Singer wrote:

> Hi all,
> I have a question about the MARC to MODS transform.  Why does it put the 245
> subfield h in the title tag?  This is not actually part of the title, so it
> seems to degrade the integrity of the record to put it there.
> 
> Has there been discussion to put this value somewhere else?
> physicalDescription possibly?  An attribute to "title"?
> 
> At least in MARC, it's easy to just leave out of a title... This is less
> easy in MODS post transform.  I could always just leave it out of the
> transform, but, at the same time, I don't want to /lose/ that data.
> 
> How are other people coping with this?
> 
> Thanks,
> -Ross.
>