RE: More on ALA

[Judith Pearce <jpearce@nla.gov.au>]

Re putting MARC into XML, has anyone done any work on putting the IFLA FRBR
data model into XML?

(FRBR = Functional Requirements for the Bibliographic Record
(http://www.ifla.org/VII/s13/frbr/frbr.pdf  - 136 pages)

Judith Pearce

Judith Pearce
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> ----------
> From: 	Matthew Beacom[SMTP:matthew.beacom@yale.edu]
> Sent: 	Thursday, 13 July 2000 7:03
> To: 	oss4lib-list@BIOMED.MED.YALE.EDU
> Subject: 	Re: More on ALA
> 
> I did not get to attend the os program at ALA, but I was at the meeting of
> MARBI and CCDA and second Karen's comment about the interest in XML and
> MARC as
> a pair. I also agree that the 0SS4LIB group is an excellent partner for
> MARBI
> and other interested groups in ALAland. Tools for non-programmers to use
> to
> work with metadata in XML would be a great set of projects. 
> 
> The discussion Karen refers to centered on Dick Miller's work on XMLMARC
> at
> Stanford Medical Library. See http://xmlmarc.stanford.edu/ for details on
> his
> work and see http://xmlmarc.stanford.edu/ALAbkgrnd.htm for a background
> paper he
> prepared as part of the MARBI/CCDA meeting. His project was mentioned in
> American Libraries in April 1999. See
> http://www.ala.org/alonline/ts/ts400.html
> 
> It was noted in the discussion at that the MARC standards office at LC
> (see
> http://lcweb.loc.gov/marc/ ) has created an SGML DTD for MARC. I'm not
> aware of
> any application of that DTD.
> 
> In May 1996 the MARC DTDs, (DTD fragments), SGML declarations, and entity
> reference files were put up on a FTP site by the Library of Congress. Work
> on
> the MARC-to-SGML conversion utilities began in July 1996 and were
> installed at
> LC in Jan. 1998. See http://lcweb.loc.gov/marc/marcsgml.html
> 
> I wonder if the MARC standards office is interested in making MARC DTDs in
> XML
> and how soon they could make them. Perhaps that is one thing the MARBI
> group
> may act on.
> 
> Matthew Beacom
> 
> 
> Matthew Beacom
> Catalog Librarian for Networked Information Resources
> Yale University Library
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>