Library Cataloging
The MARC Content Designation Utilization (MCDU) project has posted 2 documents.
MCDU
- Marc Rtp
A while back I posted that the MARC Record Translation Program (MARC RTP) had disappeared. Now it is back, though at a temporary home.MARC RTP was especially developed so that catalogue data contained in MARC format files could be converted, and selectively...
- Marc Content Designation Utilization (mcdu) Project
The progress report on the MARC Content Designation Utilization (MCDU) Project is available. Very important work. MARC...
- Marc Content Designation Utilization
Seymour Lubetzky asked "Is This Rule Necessary?". Now a study is being done asking "Is this field necessary?" The MARC Content Designation Utilization study is examing just what fields are being used. This could inform decisions on what fields to include...
- Marc Records Under The Microscope
The University of North Texas (UNT)-Texas Center for Digital Knowledge (TxCDK) announces a project investigating the coding of information in MARC records from the OCLC WorldCat database. The Institute of Museum and Library Services, an independent Federal...
- Marc
The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) has awarded a National Leadership Grant of $233,115 to the Texas Center for Digital Knowledge (TxCDK) at the University of North Texas for a project investigating the coding of information and metadata...
Library Cataloging
MARC Content Designation Utilization
The MARC Content Designation Utilization (MCDU) project has posted 2 documents.
- MCDU Project MARC Records Dataset: Decomposition Specification, Database Design, and Parser Software
This document provides information about the MARC dataset, the specifications for decomposing the MARC record, the design of the database to hold the decomposed records, and the parsing software that was designed to decompose the records and load the data to the database.Validation Procedures for MARC Record Parsing Software
This document describes the procedures for testing the parsing scripts used to decompose the MARC records. A sample of the raw MARC records from the dataset and the resulting parsed records are subjected to the validation procedures detailed below to verify the integrity of the software and ascertain that the data from the MARC records are correctly represented prior to loading into the database.
MCDU
- Marc Rtp
A while back I posted that the MARC Record Translation Program (MARC RTP) had disappeared. Now it is back, though at a temporary home.MARC RTP was especially developed so that catalogue data contained in MARC format files could be converted, and selectively...
- Marc Content Designation Utilization (mcdu) Project
The progress report on the MARC Content Designation Utilization (MCDU) Project is available. Very important work. MARC...
- Marc Content Designation Utilization
Seymour Lubetzky asked "Is This Rule Necessary?". Now a study is being done asking "Is this field necessary?" The MARC Content Designation Utilization study is examing just what fields are being used. This could inform decisions on what fields to include...
- Marc Records Under The Microscope
The University of North Texas (UNT)-Texas Center for Digital Knowledge (TxCDK) announces a project investigating the coding of information in MARC records from the OCLC WorldCat database. The Institute of Museum and Library Services, an independent Federal...
- Marc
The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) has awarded a National Leadership Grant of $233,115 to the Texas Center for Digital Knowledge (TxCDK) at the University of North Texas for a project investigating the coding of information and metadata...