Library Cataloging
Michael Doran collected some resources concerning MARC and Unicode. Coded Character Sets items include:
- 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...
- 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...
- Unicode
The report, Assessment of Options for Handling Full Unicode in Character Encodings in MARC 21 * Part 2: Issues is available. It will be discussed during the June 25th MARBI meeting.The slides from Joan Aliprand's 2004 presentation True Scripts in...
- Unicode
It's coming to MARC. This is a gentle introduction. The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!) by Joel Spolsky.Before I get started, I should warn you that if you are...
- 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...
Library Cataloging
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
- 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...
- 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...
- Unicode
The report, Assessment of Options for Handling Full Unicode in Character Encodings in MARC 21 * Part 2: Issues is available. It will be discussed during the June 25th MARBI meeting.The slides from Joan Aliprand's 2004 presentation True Scripts in...
- Unicode
It's coming to MARC. This is a gentle introduction. The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!) by Joel Spolsky.Before I get started, I should warn you that if you are...
- 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...