Remember, the schema can only be as good as the metadata contained.
Who will do the metadata cleanup required to make our myriad MARC-via-AACR2-encoded metadata useful enough for broad consumption? And how long will it take? And can it be done in an automated way? And should/would every local cataloger have to update their local records?
The (correct, imho) assumption being made is: it will be more-broadly useful when the conversion is done.
How "local" does a discovery mechanism need to be?
How "local" does an item description need to be?
What data are common across all iterations of a work?
What other locally-specialized info is needed to make a work discoverable? Findable?
Would it make more sense for libraryland as a whole (in broad general) to separate "discoverability" and "local item control"?
One big ol' searchable, browsable, facetable pile o' data with hooks out to easily show which locations have it (or access to it) and a request mechanism for non-locally held stuff.
Why do we all keep our own data separate from each other and only search "our stuff"? Would it better serve the user/patron/whatever to search the whole big pile and have the result sorted by a combination of relevance and distance?
-Aaron
:-)'
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From: Next generation catalogs for libraries [mailto:NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Eric Lease Morgan
Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2008 1:35 PM
To: NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [NGC4LIB] Library Technologies and Library School (was Commercial Vendors and Open Source Software)
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.
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Eric Lease Morgan
University of Notre Dame
Received on Thu Sep 25 2008 - 13:21:20 EDT