Re: Online Catalogs: What Users and Librarians Want

From: Deborah Fritz <deborah_at_nyob>
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 14:29:56 -0400
To: NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Weinheimer Jim wrote:

> I don't think FRBR is necessary. XML processing can eliminate 
> duplicates in all kinds of ways, so I still believe that the 
> main thing is to dump the ISO2709 format ASAP, change to some 
> kind of XML format, be it MARCXML or MODS, switch to URIs the 
> moment LC (finally) puts everything online, then share our 
> records widely (!!) in all different kinds of formats.

Jim, can you clarify how "XML processing can eliminate duplicates"? 

Deborah

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