MARC Tools
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MARC Tools


Nathan Denny has kindly released as public domain the projects he has been working on. There is a program to manipulate MARC records, another to convert them into RDF/DC, a Z39.50 tool and more. They are written in Python (I've been hearing than name more often, maybe it is something worth looking into.) Thanks Matthew Eberle, of Library Techlog for pointing to this.




- Oft Used Forms
This item from Matthew Eberle at Library TechlogPaul Bracke from dLIST has written back to my query to say that they'd welcome the kind of material Library_Geek says we should be collecting (collection development policies, instruction handouts, mission...

- Z39.50/isn Robot
ZI-Bot Populates Global Server with ISBN Data.ZI-Bot (Z39.50/ISN Robot) is our project (initiated May 2001) to populate our prototype global server with ISBN and ISSN data from public Z39.50 servers around the world. Whenever a bibp/ISBN link is created...

- Faceted Classification
Matthew Eberle at Library Techlog has provided a useful set of links on faceted classification and XFML. He has links to examples, articles and the standards. Thanks Matthew....

- Not Cataloging Related
Doc on Demand is a nice tool for any Palm user, it converts a Web page into the format they use."The purpose of this mysterious device is the conversion of text files (be they pasted from your clipboard or Stripped by this very engine from the URL you...

- Metadata
Some interesting interfaces to controlled vocabulary schemes including LCSH which might help our users navigate our catalogs are being developed at the Metadata Research Program, School of Information Management and Systems, University of California Berkeley....



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