Library Cataloging
There is a new e-mail discussion list, UNICODE-MARC. There don't seem to be any posts yet.
UNICODE
- Unicode And Marc
News from LC.The revised Character set specifications are now posted on the MARC site. They take into account the use of the full Unicode repertoire, as opposed to only the MARC-8 subset of Unicode, and also include the loss-less and lossy techniques...
- Unicode
Michael Doran collected some resources concerning MARC and Unicode. Coded Character Sets items include:A Technical Primer for LibrariansMARC UnicodeResources on the Web: With an emphasis on library automation and the internet ...
- 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...
- Marc
The following discussion paper is available for review by the MARC 21 community:Discussion Paper 2004-DP03: Changing the Mapping for the Double-Wide Diacritics from MARC8 to Unicode/UCS from the Unicode/UCS Half Diacritic Characters to the Unicode/UCS...
- Marc
MARC::Charset is a package that allows you to easily convert between the MARC-8 character encodings and Unicode (UTF-8). The Library of Congress maintains some essential mapping tables and information about the MARC-8 and Unicode environments. MARC::Charset...
Library Cataloging
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 of Unicode with MARC 21. While the Unicode character set was approved for use with MARC 21 in 1994, it has taken until now for enough implementations to be in place to effect the exchange environment. Existing Unicode implementations have been working by using only the 16,000+ characters from MARC-8 with Unicode encodings within systems, then converting to MARC-8 for exchange.Some of the issues have been posed in the two reports on using Unicode with MARC 21 that have been posted on the MARC 21 web site and discussed at MARBI meetings and other forums: Assessment of Options for Handling Full Unicode Character Encodings in MARC 21, Part 1, and Part 2. However, it will be useful if more technical staff from the various systems that process MARC records, and who do not usually attend format meetings, could enter into the discussion, hence this listserv.MARC
UNICODE
- Unicode And Marc
News from LC.The revised Character set specifications are now posted on the MARC site. They take into account the use of the full Unicode repertoire, as opposed to only the MARC-8 subset of Unicode, and also include the loss-less and lossy techniques...
- Unicode
Michael Doran collected some resources concerning MARC and Unicode. Coded Character Sets items include:A Technical Primer for LibrariansMARC UnicodeResources on the Web: With an emphasis on library automation and the internet ...
- 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...
- Marc
The following discussion paper is available for review by the MARC 21 community:Discussion Paper 2004-DP03: Changing the Mapping for the Double-Wide Diacritics from MARC8 to Unicode/UCS from the Unicode/UCS Half Diacritic Characters to the Unicode/UCS...
- Marc
MARC::Charset is a package that allows you to easily convert between the MARC-8 character encodings and Unicode (UTF-8). The Library of Congress maintains some essential mapping tables and information about the MARC-8 and Unicode environments. MARC::Charset...