I thought that a type had been defined - thanks, Mark.

Looking at it, it's from 1997 and represents the LC MARC standard at 
that time (it says: "harmonized USMARC/CANMARC specification", whatever 
that is.)

This brings up the usual question of what we mean by MARC -- the 
structure or the content -- and the fact that we don't have any 
versioning in place for the many changes that the MARC content has gone 
through. If nothing else, using this for MARC 'binary' would get you 
started. But it doesn't give you something you could use for other MARC 
binaries, like Unimarc.

BTW, it also doesn't distinguish between bibliographic, authority, etc. 
MARC record types, since that info is in the Leader. That's what it says.

kc


Mark A. Matienzo wrote:
> MARC21 binary has a content-type of application/marc - see
> http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2220.html.
>
> --
> Mark A. Matienzo
> Applications Developer, Digital Experience Group
> The New York Public Library
>
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 10:47 AM, Jonathan Rochkind <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>   
>> I am actually rather shocked that it seems that MARC-XML, MODS,
>> MARC21-binary, do not have registered Internet Content Types (aka MIME
>> types).
>>
>> Am I missing something, or is this really so?
>>
>> Anyone know what the process is for registering such?  Anyone want to help
>> try to do that? I guess we'd probably have to talk to the standards
>> organizations for each of those types, rather than doing it independently?
>>
>> Jonathan
>>
>>     
>
>
>   


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