The TEI format does a decent job of representing bibliographic
information. The TEI approach is to treat all instances of bibliographic
reference as similarly as possible. So the title page of a work, the
reference markers in the text and the references at the end of the work
are all described in the same conceptual framework.
http://www.tei-c.org/release/doc/tei-p5-doc/html/CO.html#COBI
The TEI is modular, so you can declare whether you're commingling
bibliographic tags with part-of-speech, manuscript description and other
kinds of tags.
cheers
stuart
Cloutman, David wrote:
> I'm open to seeing new approaches to the ILS in general. A related
> question I had the other day, speaking of MARC, is what would an
> alternative bibliographic data format look like if it was designed with
> the intent for opening access to the data our ILS systems to developers
> in a more informal manner? I was thinking of an XML format that a
> developer could work with without formal training, the basics of which
> could be learned in an hour, and could reasonably represent the
> essential fields of the 90% of records that are most likely to be viewed
> by a public library patron. In my mind, such a format would allow
> creators of community-based web sites to pull data from their local
> library, and repurpose it without having to learn a lot of arcane
> formats (e.g. MARC) or esoteric protocols (e.g. Z39.50). The sacrifice,
> of course, would be loosing some of the richness MARC allows, but I
> think in many common situations the really complex records are not what
> patrons are interested in. You may want to consider prototyping this in
> your application. I see such an effort to be vital in making our systems
> relevant in future computing environments, and I am skeptical that a
> simple, workable solution would come out the initial efforts of a
> standardization committee.
>
> Just my 2 cents.
>
> - David
>
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> David Cloutman <[log in to unmask]>
> Electronic Services Librarian
> Marin County Free Library
>
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> Peter Schlumpf
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> Subject: [CODE4LIB] Something completely different
>
>
> Greetings!
>
> I have been lurking on (or ignoring) this forum for years. And
> libraries too. Some of you may know me. I am the Avanti guy. I am,
> perhaps, the first person to try to produce an open source ILS back in
> 1999, though there is a David Duncan out there who tried before I did. I
> was there when all this stuff was coming together.
>
> Since then I have seen a lot of good things happen. There's Koha.
> There's Evergreen. They are good things. I have also seen first hand
> how libraries get screwed over and over by commercial vendors with their
> crappy software. I believe free software is the answer to that. I have
> neglected Avanti for years, but now I am ready to return to it.
>
> I want to get back to simple things. Imagine if there were no Marc
> records. Minimal layers of abstraction. No politics. No vendors. No
> SQL straightjacket. What would an ILS look like without those things?
> Sometimes the biggest prison is between the ears.
>
> I am in a position to do this now, and that's what I have decided to do.
> I am getting busy.
>
> Peter Schlumpf
>
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Stuart Yeates
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