Library Cataloging
MARC
Agreement Signed on MARC21 Development and Maintenance
On August 16, 2002, in Glasgow, the members of the MARC Harmonization Coordinating Committee (MHCC) completed the signing of an agreement confirming the commitment of the National Library of Canada, the Library of Congress and the British Library to work together on the maintenance and development of the MARC21 format.
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Marc Tool
yaz-marcdump is a free tool from Index Data to manipulate MARC records. Perhaps it is just the tool you need to convert those MARC21 records encoded in MARC-8 into UTF-8. yaz-marcdump reads MARC records from one or more files. It parses each record and...
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Rda/marc Working Group Established
Sent to the MARC email list.Under the auspices of the British Library, the Library and Archives Canada, and the Library of Congress, an RDA/MARC Working Group has been established to collaborate on the development of proposals for changes to the MARC...
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Dublin Core
Lots of news from the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative. Check out their news page for all the latest. The one I find most useful is an agreement has been signed on DCMI Conference Paper RepositoryAn agreement was signed in March 2006 concerning the hosting...
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Marcont Ontology
Some interesting work being done by the MarcOnt initiative.With the Semantic Web emerged the Dublin Core Metadata standard for library resource description. Besides the fact that most of the information covered by MARC21 is lost, the full potential of...
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Scatnews
The latest issues of the Newsletter of the Standing Committee of the IFLA Section on Cataloguing is now available. It includes information about Muldicat - Multilingual Dictionary of Cataloging Terms and Definitions, Project "Changing for international...
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