On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 7:55 PM, Jonathan Rochkind <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Okay, forget XML for a moment, let's just look at marc 'binary'.
>
> First, for Anglophone-centric MARC21.
>

Actually Anglo and Francophone centric. And the USMARC style 245 was a poor
replacement for the UKMARC approach (someone at the British Library hosted
Linked Data meeting wondered why there were punctation characters included
in the data in the title field. The catalogers wept slightly).

Simon