Looking back, looking forward: a metadata standard for LANL's aDORe repository

ABSTRACT

Although often disparaged or dismissed in the library community, the MARC standard, notably the MARCXML standard, provides surprising flexibility and robustness for mapping disparate metadata to a vendor-neutral format for storage, exchange, and downstream use.

REFERENCES

• 1: Tennant, R. A bibliographic metadata infrastructure for the twenty-first century. Library Hi Tech, 22, 2 (2004), 175--181.
• 2: Eden, B.L. (editor). Metadata and Librarianship: will MARC survive? Library Hi Tech, 22, 1 (2004)
• 3: Tennant, R. MARC must die. Library Journal (Oct. 15, 2002), 26--27.
• 4: Tennant, R. MARC exit strategies. Library Journal, (Nov. 15, 2002), 27--28.
• 5: Sally H. McCallum, MARC: Keystone for Library Automation, IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, v.24 n.2, p.34-49, April 2002 [doi>10.1109/MAHC.2002.1010068]
• 6: MARCXML Standard: http://www.loc.gov/standards/marcxml/
• 7: California Digital Library, 2003. Proposal no: 2003--03: Definition of Data Elements for Article Level Description. http://www.loc.gov/marc/marbi/2003/2003-03.html
• 8: MARCXML Design Considerations. December 30, 2004. http://www.loc.gov/standards/marcxml/marcxml-design.html

INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  I. Computing Methodologies
  I.7 DOCUMENT AND TEXT PROCESSING
      I.7.2 Document Preparation
          Subjects: Format and notation

Additional Classification:
  I. Computing Methodologies
  I.7 DOCUMENT AND TEXT PROCESSING
      I.7.2 Document Preparation
          Subjects: Markup languages

General Terms:
Design, Standardization

Keywords:
MARCXML, data mapping, metadata standards