Library Cataloging
A new report from OCLC, A Crosswalk from ONIX Version 3.0 for Books to MARC 21
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Increase Sales & Lower Costs: A Step-By-Step ONIX Guide for Publishers. ONIX (Online Information Exchange) is the standard in the publishing industry for computer-to-computer communication about bibliographic data. Basically, it allows you to represent...
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I had remarked a while back that I know of no publisher making their ONIX records available. I've since received two comments pointing out that some records are available. The Cambridge University Press makes them available, along with much other...
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Medeiros, Norm (2004) Repurposed metadata : ONIX and the Library of Congress' BEAT Program. OCLC Systems & Services 20(3):pp. 93-95.This article reviews the ONIX-based efforts of the Library of Congress' Bibliographic Enrichment Advisory Team...
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Library Cataloging
ONIX to MARC Crosswalk
A new report from OCLC, A Crosswalk from ONIX Version 3.0 for Books to MARC 21
This report describes the crosswalk developed at OCLC for mapping the bibliographic elements defined in Version 3.0 of ONIX for Books to MARC 21 with AACR2 encoding. It is an update to the previous report, Mapping ONIX to MARC, which was published in 2010 and focused on ONIX 2.1.
Written by Senior Research Scientist Carol Jean Godby, A Crosswalk from ONIX Version 3.0 for Books to MARC 21 describes the layout of the crosswalk and a strategy for deriving ONIX 3.0 syntax from ONIX 2.1, including a note about how the translation logic is implemented at OCLC. It also builds a complex MARC record from ONIX 3.0 input, focusing on relationships that constitute an important source of shared value in the library and publisher communities, are newly introduced or extensively revised in ONIX 3.0, or illustrate unresolved conceptual problems with bibliographic description. In the process of creating this record, it becomes apparent that some of the concepts introduced in ONIX 3.0 are not easily expressed in a MARC record with AACR2 semantics. The report concludes by speculating about how the MARC output might be improved if the AACR2 semantics is replaced by RDA.
For a quick overview, watch the YouTube video of Carol Jean Godby summarizing the report. For more information about the work related to the report, see the Metadata Schema Transformation Services activity page on the OCLC Research website (links below).
More information
Read the report, A Crosswalk from ONIX Version 3.0 for Books to MARC 21
http://www.oclc.org/research/publications/library/2012/2012-04r.htm
- Metadata Is Marketing
Increase Sales & Lower Costs: A Step-By-Step ONIX Guide for Publishers. ONIX (Online Information Exchange) is the standard in the publishing industry for computer-to-computer communication about bibliographic data. Basically, it allows you to represent...
- Onix Resource
Here is a go-to place for ONIX Records for LibrariesI am trying to gather information on publishers who make ONIX records available for downloading. Here is what I have so far. If you know of another publisher that freely offers ONIX records for downloading,...
- Onix
I had remarked a while back that I know of no publisher making their ONIX records available. I've since received two comments pointing out that some records are available. The Cambridge University Press makes them available, along with much other...
- Metadata
Medeiros, Norm (2004) Repurposed metadata : ONIX and the Library of Congress' BEAT Program. OCLC Systems & Services 20(3):pp. 93-95.This article reviews the ONIX-based efforts of the Library of Congress' Bibliographic Enrichment Advisory Team...
- Onix
ONIX: What Is In It for Libraries? at NISO provides links to some papers.ONIX in the Library or, Why This Presentation Should Be Longer by Laura Dawson, SIRSIONIX: What's In It for Libraries? The Technical Services Angle by David Williamson, Library...