On Tue, 2005-12-20 at 16:32 +1300, Phillip Pearson wrote: > This would probably make more sense over on the microformats-discuss > list. Edward - visit > http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss/ to join. > Edward Vielmetti wrote: > >I'm looking for suggestions for a microformat > >suitable to recommend to my library which > >produces an RSS feed as a result set for > >a search through its library catalog. > >hReview isn't quite right, and there's a lot > >of potentially useful book metadata that > >comes from a standard format (US-MARC) > >and should be straightforward to map in.
MARC is also the name of what we use in Australia, especially in academic libraries. My spouse works in this field, but isn't sure if the encoding is the same as US MARC or not. According to wikipedia[1], it is US MARC. In the primary school library where she currently works, she makes extensive use of the scis[2] database. This is a subscriber-only system that allows users to search for already-catalogued works so that they can avoid doing the original cataloguing over again. The user enters ISBNs for those works that have them, and SCIS numbers that need to be searched for when items do not have an ISBN. The list of ISBN and SCIS numbers is entered into a dialogue, and a usmarc.dat file is produced for download. This file is imported into the local library system, and bob's your uncle. Interestingly, this isn't an XML MARC. It is still the original system, which looks something like this: 00741nam 2200265 a 4500001000800000005001700008007000300025008004100028020001500069040000900084082002000093100001600113245004100129260003900170300002300209440002500232440003800257500004100295500001400336650002200350650002200372650002700394650002700421650002700448105068920010622154425.0ta010622s2000 at |000 0 eng d a1862830517 aW.A.14a796.5bGRA2a131 aGrant, Jim.10aEveryone likes .... It seems likely that any microformatted MARC would have to be able to be translated back to this version for import to local tools in order to be useful. -- Benjamin Carlyle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MARC_21 [2] http://www.curriculum.edu.au/scis/ _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list microformats-discuss@microformats.org http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss