Library Cataloging
In Building a New Bibliographic Infrastructure Roy Tennant decides MARC should not to put to death but rather die a natural death.
- 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...
- Oclc Control Number Expansion In 2013
News from OCLC. WorldCat continues to grow! The OCLC Control Number is anticipated to reach one billion after July 1, 2013. At that point, OCLC will increase the length of the OCLC number to accommodate a variable length number string. If you use and/or...
- Problems In The Catalog
The Murky Bucket Syndrome by Roy Tennant appears in the latest Library Journal. He describes the problems of standardization of large historical datasets, like our catalogs. "As we try to do things programmatically, the structure and content practices...
- Marc & Metadata
Volume 22 Issue 2 of Library Hi Tech is the second part of the metadata special issues.Title: Using XSLT to manipulate MARC metadata by Corey KeithMeta-information about MARC: an XML framework for validation+ explanation and help systems by Joaquim Ramos...
- Metadata Object Description Schema (mods)
"The Library of Congress' Network Development and MARC Standards Office, with interested experts, has developed the Metadata Object Description Schema (MODS), which is a bibliographic element set that may be used for a variety of purposes, particularly...
Library Cataloging
Bibliographic Infrastructure
In Building a New Bibliographic Infrastructure Roy Tennant decides MARC should not to put to death but rather die a natural death.
The point is we need to craft standards, software tools, and systems that can accept, manipulate, store, output, search, and display metadata from a wide variety of bibliographic or related standards. Our systems should be able to accept an ONIX record from a publisher, which contains basic bibliographic fields and elements like cover art, and use it as a prototype cataloging record or to enrich an existing record. Our systems should be able to output a record easily in Dublin Core for harvesting through the Open Archives Initiative's Protocol for Metadata Harvesting. In other words, we need a new bibliographic infrastructure that allows for the easy and effective sharing of various types of records.I've seen many calls for systems that accept ONIX records. Are any publishers making them available to libraries (other than LC)?
- 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...
- Oclc Control Number Expansion In 2013
News from OCLC. WorldCat continues to grow! The OCLC Control Number is anticipated to reach one billion after July 1, 2013. At that point, OCLC will increase the length of the OCLC number to accommodate a variable length number string. If you use and/or...
- Problems In The Catalog
The Murky Bucket Syndrome by Roy Tennant appears in the latest Library Journal. He describes the problems of standardization of large historical datasets, like our catalogs. "As we try to do things programmatically, the structure and content practices...
- Marc & Metadata
Volume 22 Issue 2 of Library Hi Tech is the second part of the metadata special issues.Title: Using XSLT to manipulate MARC metadata by Corey KeithMeta-information about MARC: an XML framework for validation+ explanation and help systems by Joaquim Ramos...
- Metadata Object Description Schema (mods)
"The Library of Congress' Network Development and MARC Standards Office, with interested experts, has developed the Metadata Object Description Schema (MODS), which is a bibliographic element set that may be used for a variety of purposes, particularly...