MARCEdit http://people.oregonstate.edu/~reeset/marcedit/html/downloads.html has validation tools & the xcmetadataservicestoolkit (has/will have) http://code.google.com/p/xcmetadataservicestoolkit/ in each you will have to specify what exactly you wish to validate/match (Dublin Core scheme, MARC21 fields¹ contents, repeatability, etc.) Ya¹aqov Ziso On 2/16/10 10:34 AM, "Jonathan Rochkind" <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Do you mean MARC-XML? > > http://www.loc.gov/standards/marcxml/ > > But I'm not sure schemas exist that will actually validate the semantic > content you want validated. > > Jonathan > > > Houghton,Andrew wrote: >> > Does anybody know whether the MARC formats at: >> > >> > <http://www.loc.gov/marc/authority/> >> > <http://www.loc.gov/marc/bibliographic/> >> > <http://www.loc.gov/marc/classification/> >> > <http://www.loc.gov/marc/community/> >> > <http://www.loc.gov/marc/holdings/> >> > >> > are encoded in an XML format that one might use for processing/validation >> of the leader, field tags, indicator codes, subfield codes, field and >> subfield repeatability, and field and subfield requiredness. Something akin >> to the codepoint table in XML at: >> > >> > <http://www.loc.gov/marc/specifications/codetables.xml> >> > >> > >> > Thanks, Andy. >> > >> >