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Ya'aqov Ziso schrieb: > MAB >>> German MARC Just to note that: MAB is (unfortunately) not a "German MARC", it is structurally and semantically totally different from any MARC dialect. So it is really hard to work with MAB data, because all the nice open source tools for processing bibliographic records (MARC::Record, marc4j, software based on that like solrmarc ...) are hard to use in applications for German libraries. There are no nice OS programming libraries for handling MAB... There are ongoing efforts to promote MARC 21 in Germany. There is even a resolution by the German library standardization board to switch to MARC 21 as official interlibrary exchange format dating back to 2004. But in practice, MARC 21 doesn't play any role yet in Germany... That makes it really hard to promote some Open Source solutions that focus primarily on MARC data (not so much for technical reasons). -- Till Kinstler Verbundzentrale des Gemeinsamen Bibliotheksverbundes (VZG) Platz der Göttinger Sieben 1, D 37073 Göttingen [log in to unmask], +49 (0) 551 39-13431, http://www.gbv.de