Re: Library Technologies and Library School (was Commercial Vendors and Open Source Software)

From: Eric Lease Morgan <emorgan_at_nyob>
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2008 13:34:34 -0400
To: NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
On Sep 25, 2008, at 1:20 PM, Jacobs, Jane W wrote:

> What's a good XML schema into which our MARC should be flipped?   
> What's
> missing that needs to be filled in?  I'm also not the appointed  
> guardian
> of MARC either, but before I sign onto something new:
>
> SHOW ME THE SCHEMA!



Given that no metadata schema is perfect, I advocate MODS:

   http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/

But in reality, I believe the library world would benefit from the use  
and exploitation of many XML schemas.

-- 
Eric Lease Morgan
University of Notre Dame
Received on Thu Sep 25 2008 - 12:03:49 EDT