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
e: o.stephens_at_imperial.ac.uk
Received on Wed Oct 01 2008 - 03:18:59 EDT