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mapping between MARC21 and RDA-RDF
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Standardize note punctuation #452

Open cspayne opened 6 months ago

cspayne commented 6 months ago

Our notes should have a standard format. Currently, the notes I've put into the transform where multiple subfields are present conform to the following (unless there were different instructions in the mapping sheet): [subfield label]: [subfield value];

so that it appears like this: subfield a label: a; subfield b label: b; subfield c label: c.

The transform assumes that the last subfield (that isn't a $3, $5, $0, or $1) has some sort of ending punctuation. However, it does not account for any punctuation within the other subfields, so if subfields already contain ending punctuation such as a period, comma, or semicolon, the formatting can look awkward.

Are there are specific ending punctuation marks that we can expect and look for? If so, I can write it into the transform.

cspayne commented 1 week ago

This should be documented somewhere and then can be closed.