ZMARCO
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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 issues surrounding character encodings.




- 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...

- 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...

- Oai, Marc & Z39.50
FOS News alerted me to this tool.ZMARCO is an Open Archive Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) 2.0 compliant data provider. The 'Z' in ZMARCO stands for Z39.50; 'MARC' stands for MAchine-Readable Cataloging; and the 'O'...

- Z39.50
A new version of YAZ has been released, May 22. Here is the notice:"The current version of YAZ includes experimental support for the industry standard ZOOM API for Z39.50. This API vastly simplifies the process of writing new clients using YAZ, and it...



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