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Metadata and librarianship: will MARC survive?
Bradford Lee EdenMetadata schema and standards are now a part of the information landscape. Librarianship has slowly realized that MARC is only one of a proliferation of metadata standards, and…
Cyril: expanding the horizons of MARC21
Jane W. Jacobs, Ed Summers, Elizabeth AnkersenDescribes the construction of the author’s Perl program, Cyril, to add vernacular Russian (Cyrillic) characters to existing MARC records. The program takes advantage of the ALA‐LC…
The MARC standard and encoded archival description
Peter Carini, Kelcy ShepherdThis case study details the evolution of descriptive practices and standards used in the Mount Holyoke College Archives and the Five College Finding Aids Access Project, discusses…
MARC to ENC MARC: bringing the collection forward
Janet Kahkonen Smith, Roger L. Cunningham, Stephen P. SarapataThis paper will describe the way in which the USMARC cataloging schema is used at the Eisenhower National Clearing‐house (ENC). Discussion will include how ENC MARC extensions…
After MARC – what then?
Leif AndresenThe article discusses the future of the MARC formats and outlines how future cataloguing practice and bibliographic records might look. Background and basic functionality of the…
An introduction to the Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard (METS)
Morgan V. CundiffThis article provides an introductory overview of the Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard, better known as METS. It will be of most use to librarians and technical staff…
Pulling it all together: use of METS in RLG cultural materials service
Merrilee ProffittRLG has used METS for a particular application, that is as a wrapper for structural metadata. When RLG cultural materials was launched, there was no single way to deal with…
A preliminary crosswalk from METS to IMS content packaging
Raymond Yee, Rick BeaubienAs educational technology becomes pervasive, demand will grow for library content to be incorporated into courseware. Among the barriers impeding interoperability between…
An introduction to the Metadata Object Description Schema (MODS)
Sally H. McCallumThis paper provides an introduction to the Metadata Object Description Schema (MODS), a MARC21 compatible XML schema for descriptive metadata. It explains the requirements that…
Using the Metadata Object Description Schema (MODS) for resource description: guidelines and applications
Rebecca S. GuentherThis paper describes the Metadata Object Description Schema (MODS), its accompanying documentation and some of its applications. It reviews the MODS user guidelines provided by…
Whither HTML?
Judith WustemanHTML has reinvented itself as an XML application. The working draft of the latest version, XHTML 2.0, is causing controversy due to its lack of backward compatibility and the…
Copyright in a networked world: ethics and infringement
Michael SeadleThe statutes themselves are not the only basis for deciding whether an intellectual property rights infringement has occurred. Ethical judgments can also influence judicial…
