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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.