NYPL / catalog_of_copyright_entries_project

NYPL Project to transcribe and parse pages from the US Catalog of Copyright Entries
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Is classCode necessary? #7

Closed seanredmond closed 6 years ago

seanredmond commented 6 years ago

if classCode is just the first letter or letters of the registration number is an element necessary? Can't it just be calculated from the regnum? If there is some processing advantage to having it "precalculated" in the XML, and if the regnum is now going to be an attribute of copyrightEntry (see #5), maybe a regclass attribute could be added as well.

<copyrightEntry id=”GUID” regnum=”A53538” regclass="A">