Re: more on MARC char encoding: Now we're about ISO_2709 and MARC21

From: Simon Spero <sesuncedu_at_nyob>
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2012 20:46:24 -0400
To: CODE4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 7:55 PM, Jonathan Rochkind <rochkind_at_jhu.edu> wrote:

> Okay, forget XML for a moment, let's just look at marc 'binary'.
>
> First, for Anglophone-centric MARC21.
>

Actually Anglo and Francophone centric. And the USMARC style 245 was a poor
replacement for the UKMARC approach (someone at the British Library hosted
Linked Data meeting wondered why there were punctation characters included
in the data in the title field. The catalogers wept slightly).

Simon
Received on Tue Apr 17 2012 - 20:49:51 EDT