On 3/5/10 2:46 PM, Ross Singer wrote:
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 2:06 PM, Benjamin Young<byo...@bigbluehat.com> wrote:
A CouchDB friend of mine just pointed me to the BibJSON format by the
Bibliographic Knowledge Network:
http://www.bibkn.org/bibjson/index.html
Might be worth looking through for future collaboration/transformation
options.
marc-json and BibJSON serve two different purposes: marc-json would
need to be a loss-less serialization of a MARC record which may or may
not contain bibliographic data (it may be an authority, holding or CID
record, for example). BibJSON is more of a merging of data model and
serialization (which, admittedly, is no stranger to MARC) for the
purpose of bibliographic /citations/. So it will probably be lossy
and there would most likely be a lot of MARC data that is out of
scope.
That's not to say it wouldn't be useful to figure out how to get from
MARC->BibJSON, but from my perspective it's difficult to see the
advantage it brings (being tied to JSON) vs. BIBO.
-Ross.
Thanks for the clarification, Ross. I thought it would be helpful (if
nothing else) to see how data was being mapped in a related domain into
and out of JSON. I'm new to library data in general, so I appreciate the
clarification on which format is for what.
Appreciated,
Benjamin
