On 3/5/10 2:46 PM, Ross Singer wrote: > On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 2:06 PM, Benjamin Young<[log in to unmask]> 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