Hola,
>> * Libraries and their systems around the world needs to KILL
>> presentation in MARC
Bernhard Eversberg <ev_at_biblio.tu-bs.de> wrote:
> Who would that help? It's always only an option for those who know what
> they want.
Huh? You seriously don't see a problem with presentation artifacts in
a meta data format? Remember what the MAR part of MARC stands for. I
don't think they wanted "readable" as a non-sequitur. I've before
whinged hard and long that having something machine *readable* is not
the same as machine *understandable*.
>> * Libraries and vendors need to come up with (or reuse) a format the
>> rest of the world wants to learn or is already using
>>
> Yes. Which ones?
Don't know. Probably RDF as a carrier. What I find odd is that no one
seems to have tried to make a serious XML version of MARC
(http://shelterit.blogspot.com/2008/09/marcxml-beast-of-burden.html).
By now it could have been the way out, but I suspect it's too late.
>> Some of this has bits done, but there's a LOT that needs to happen.
>
> Agreed. Only not sure killing MARC is among those things.
Funnily enough, I didn't say that. :)
Alex
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Received on Thu Jun 10 2010 - 17:15:37 EDT