Library Cataloging
I was just listening to a podcast from Web Essentials 05, where the speaker was asking about old data archives. He was discussing the problems of data migration, and archiving. It occurred to me I have data from the mid-1980s that I use often. I've had no problems with migration. Some of the data was even created 10 years or more before it arrived here. Isn't MARC wonderful. I've not lost any part of my records as they have migrated from one system to another. We have lost some circulation history, but that is not part of those MARC records. My MultiMate files from the mid-1980s or the Q&A files from a few years later would pose problems but not my MARC records. Even Microlif would work just fine after a few tweaks. Thanks to all those who had the foresight to build such a stable foundation for our catalogs.
MARC
- Anachronistic Assumptions About Marc
Interpreting MARC: Where?s the Bibliographic Data? by by Jason Thomale appears in the latest code4lib Journal The MARC data format was created early in the history of digital computers. In this article, the author entertains the notion that viewing MARC...
- Marcview And Marconvert Now Open Source
The source code for the MARCView and MARConvert products is now available for download.MARCView is the easiest way to view, search, and print ANSI/ISO standard MARC records, UNIMARC records, and MARCXML records. It will also handle many files that are...
- Pymarc
The latest version of pymarc has the ability to change records from MARC-8 encoding to UNICODE, UTF-8. A task that most of our catalogs will have to go through in the next few years, I guess. Nice to have a tool for when that day arrives.The pymarc module...
- Marc21
Now available on-line: Martha M. Yee, New perspectives on the shared cataloging environment and a MARC 21 shopping list (2004). Library Resources & Technical Services. 48 (3), pp. 165-178.This paper surveys the cataloging literature to collect problems...
- British Library
In preparation for the implementation of an integrated library system, the British Library is making available sample BNB MARC exchange data files. These files contain non-current data which has been converted but which is representative of the data that...
Library Cataloging
MARC
I was just listening to a podcast from Web Essentials 05, where the speaker was asking about old data archives. He was discussing the problems of data migration, and archiving. It occurred to me I have data from the mid-1980s that I use often. I've had no problems with migration. Some of the data was even created 10 years or more before it arrived here. Isn't MARC wonderful. I've not lost any part of my records as they have migrated from one system to another. We have lost some circulation history, but that is not part of those MARC records. My MultiMate files from the mid-1980s or the Q&A files from a few years later would pose problems but not my MARC records. Even Microlif would work just fine after a few tweaks. Thanks to all those who had the foresight to build such a stable foundation for our catalogs.
MARC
- Anachronistic Assumptions About Marc
Interpreting MARC: Where?s the Bibliographic Data? by by Jason Thomale appears in the latest code4lib Journal The MARC data format was created early in the history of digital computers. In this article, the author entertains the notion that viewing MARC...
- Marcview And Marconvert Now Open Source
The source code for the MARCView and MARConvert products is now available for download.MARCView is the easiest way to view, search, and print ANSI/ISO standard MARC records, UNIMARC records, and MARCXML records. It will also handle many files that are...
- Pymarc
The latest version of pymarc has the ability to change records from MARC-8 encoding to UNICODE, UTF-8. A task that most of our catalogs will have to go through in the next few years, I guess. Nice to have a tool for when that day arrives.The pymarc module...
- Marc21
Now available on-line: Martha M. Yee, New perspectives on the shared cataloging environment and a MARC 21 shopping list (2004). Library Resources & Technical Services. 48 (3), pp. 165-178.This paper surveys the cataloging literature to collect problems...
- British Library
In preparation for the implementation of an integrated library system, the British Library is making available sample BNB MARC exchange data files. These files contain non-current data which has been converted but which is representative of the data that...