Re: (dsssl) Practical Bibliography question

["M. Wroth" <mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 11:22 PM 10/13/01 -0500, Markus Hoenicka wrote:
> Trent Shipley writes:
>  > Furthermore, it should be cognizant of existing practices and 
> standards in
>  > library science and records management.  You would want to look at 
> several
>  > XML (and SGML)  projects including DocBook and TEI, but also Dublin 
> Core (a
>  > project by and for Librarians) and the activities of the Semantic Web 
> working
>  > group (that in part build on the Dublin Core).  In additon, you would 
> want to
>  > familiarize yourself with older document representation and storage 
> formats
>  > like MARC.

[....]

There is a project to create an SGML or XML DTD capturing MARC records that 
might be a potential starting place.  It would have several advantages, 
including some support from the Library of Congress and compatibility with 
MARC itself.

On the flip side, MARC is powerful, flexible, and portable -- but you  may 
notice that I did *not* say user friendly :-)


Mark B. Wroth
<mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>


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