May 23, 2012 by Gary Price
From an LC Announcement: The Library of Congress is pleased to announce that it has contracted with Zepheira to help accelerate the launch of the Bibliographic Framework Initiative. A major focus of the project is to translate the MARC 21 format to a Linked Data (LD) model while retaining as much as possible the robust […]
May 21, 2012 by Gary Price
Title A Crosswalk from ONIX Version 3.0 for Books to MARC 21 Author Jean Godby, Ph.D. OCLC Research Summary A Crosswalk from ONIX Version 3.0 for Books to MARC 21 describes the crosswalk developed at OCLC for mapping the bibliographic elements defined in Version 3.0 of ONIX for Books to MARC 21 with AACR2 encoding. […]
May 7, 2012 by Gary Price
New from OCLC (May 2012) Why Review the Bulletin: To learn about changes to OCLC-MARC records, many of which are related to Resource Description and Access (RDA), the proposed successor to AACR2. Direct to OCLC Technical Bulletin 261 (28 pages; PDF)
November 12, 2011 by Gary Price
The Use of Non-MARC Metadata in AALL Libraries: A Baseline Study by Robert Richards published in Law Library Journal, 103(4), 631-658 (2011) (via Academia.edu) Summary: This article reports results of a 2009 survey of AALL libraries respecting non-MARC metadata practices, with a focus on interoperability. Results cover types of collections described with non-MARC metadata, as […]
October 31, 2011 by Gary Price
From LC: The Working Group of the Future of Bibliographic Control, as it examined technology for the future, wrote that the Library community’s data carrier, MARC, is “based on forty-year-old techniques for data management and is out of step with programming styles of today.” The Working Group called for a format that will “accommodate and […]