> > 2) "Title" is English. "245" is more internationally recognized.
On 5/27/07, Casey Bisson <cbisson_at_plymouth.edu> wrote:
> <title></title> is not English. It's XML. It's a very specific token
> used to identify a certain type of data, as specified in the schema.
> The fact that its meaning in the XML schema and in English are
> similar can be confusing, but the computer knows exactly what it means.
I think her point was that she wasn't a computer, that there are more
human problems with the extended XML approach. Even the English word
'title' is a token that has meaning and connotation in various
contexts.
> The big difference is in the number of applications, code libraries,
> and people who understand XML vs. MARC, and in our ability to evolve
> XML in ways MARC has resisted.
Extending MARC is really quite easy. Making an XML schema is also
really easy. To do any of them well is really, really hard.
Representing MARC in XML is easy, but representing MARC in XML *well*
is hard. The same can be said about the opposite order as well.
The hard bit about any of these is *not* the format in which it sits;
it's to create a metadata ecosystem that's both past-, present- and
forward-looking. XML and / or MARC is almost irrellevant.
Alex
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