Alexander Johannesen wrote:
>
> XML with some agreed-upon vocabularies and possibly a sprinkling of
> identity control and mixed content would get us out of this MARC
> pickle sooner than *anything* else. I'm baffled as to why no one seems
> to argue this way or see it.
>
Oh, we have and we do. Come on over to:
http://dublincore.org/dcmirdataskgroup/
and check out the preliminary schemas and vocabularies at:
http://metadataregistry.org
Yes, this is based on RDA -- for now. But just on the RDA list of
elements. As this develops, we will hopefully come up with a broad set
of defined data elements that can be mixed, matched, and used in many
different application profiles. It's step #1 in getting us beyond MARC.
For a quick overview of what and why, take a look at the talk I gave at
code4lib earlier this year.
http://www.archive.org/details/code4lib.conf.2008.keynote.Coyle.CanResourceDescriptionBecomeRigorousData
kc
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