Re: Google Booksearch Data API: Another blow to library metadata

From: Stephens, Owen <o.stephens_at_nyob>
Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2008 09:53:16 +0100
To: NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Somewhere in this thread (I think) there was discussion of around XML
and bib data, and MODS was mentioned as a better encoding of bib data
into XML than MARCXML (which some felt wasn't a particularly difficult
feat). Anyway, I thought that this might be of interest
http://copac.ac.uk/development-blog/2008/09/persistent-identifiers-for-c
opac-records/ - COPAC is a union catalogue for many of the largest UK HE
Research Libraries, and they are doing some interesting development work
now - in this particular case they are exposing records in MODS - 'tho
you have to know the record ID

Owen Stephens
Assistant Director: eStrategy and Information Resources
Central Library
Imperial College London
South Kensington Campus
London
SW7 2AZ
 
t: +44 (0)20 7594 8829
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Received on Wed Oct 01 2008 - 03:18:59 EDT