NACO normalization paper

For those of you that subscribe or have easy access to LRTS (Library Resources & Technical Services), Volume 50, No. 3 (July 2006) has an article by Jenny Toves, Ed O'Neill, and myself about NACO Normalization on pages 166-172.  (Here is a preprint.)

Our main conclusions are that the first comma in subfield a exception should be dropped and that MARC subfield delimiters should be treated as blanks.  This would result in a few conflicts, but greatly increase the scope of where this really excellent approach to normalization could be employed.

An earlier post has more about this.

Now, on to normalizing non-Roman text.

--Th