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