Library Cataloging
MARC
The following document is available for review by the MARC 21 community:
Report: Assessment of Options for Handling Full Unicode Character
Encodings in MARC 21 -- Part 1: New Scripts
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Unicode And Marc
News from LC.The revised Character set specifications are now posted on the MARC site. They take into account the use of the full Unicode repertoire, as opposed to only the MARC-8 subset of Unicode, and also include the loss-less and lossy techniques...
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Unicode And Marc
There is a new e-mail discussion list, UNICODE-MARC. There don't seem to be any posts yet.The Library of Congress has set up a special listserv for the MARC 21 user community to discuss and arrive at consensus on various issues concerning the implementation...
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Unicode
Michael Doran collected some resources concerning MARC and Unicode. Coded Character Sets items include:A Technical Primer for LibrariansMARC UnicodeResources on the Web: With an emphasis on library automation and the internet
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Zmarco
A new version of ZMARCO has been released.The only change to this version is the use of the latest version of VB-ZOOM 1.2c1.1.2 for all of the Z39.50 and MARC functionality. This significantly improves the support for handling MARC records, especially...
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Marc
MARC::Charset is a package that allows you to easily convert between the MARC-8 character encodings and Unicode (UTF-8). The Library of Congress maintains some essential mapping tables and information about the MARC-8 and Unicode environments. MARC::Charset...
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