[Enhance] Dublin Core records

[Kate Harcourt]

Hi

I meant to ask this question at ALA but was unable to attend Jay's 
OCLC Enhance meeting.

Anyway, I've been curious if we have any special obligations in upgrading 
records that originated as Dublin Core.  These records are defined as:

Record is converted from a simple resource description record in another 
syntax (e.g., HTML or SGML) using the Dublin Core metadata element set. 
The content of the record (descriptive elements and headings) may or may 
not follow any cataloging standard (e.g., AACR2 or ISBD). The OCLC system 
supplies code dc whenever a user creates a record using Dublin Core new.

Some records require little editing but in other instances we extensively 
re-work the record to comply with AACR2, ISBD and PCC standards. Are we 
obligated to keep DC fields? If the record is completely reworked to be 
AACR, ISBD compliant, do we delete 042?

An example is #60631509

Thanks
Kate

Kate Harcourt
Head, Original Serial and Monograph Cataloging
102 Butler Library
Columbia University Libraries
phone: 212.854.2714
fax: 212.854.5167