- From: Karl Dubost <karl@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:50:17 +0900
- To: Semantic Web <semantic-web@w3.org>
Reading Figoblog, An article in French
"Back to the future"
http://www.figoblog.org/document1485.php
caught my attention
In a long article, LANL is promoting MARCXML as the suitable format
for Digital Libraries. No mention is done at all about RDF Technologies.
Excerpts.
Repository Librarian and the Next Crusade
The Search for a Common Standard for Digital Repository Metadata
Beth Goldsmith
Frances Knudson
Los Alamos National Laboratory Research Library
[[[
Introduction
Metadata is an exceedingly broad category of information covering
everything from an object's title and date of origin to information
about layout, presentation, and rights. Within libraries and digital
object repositories, metadata is the cornerstone of the
infrastructure required for exchange and use of information. While
metadata standards abound, and acceptance and use of these standards
is equally widespread, agreement on a common standard is much harder
to find.
]]] -- Repository Librarian and the Next Crusade: The Search for a
Common Standard for Digital Repository Metadata
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/september06/goldsmith/09goldsmith.html
Wed, 20 Sep 2006 13:01:36 GMT
[[[
Conclusion
In 2003, MARCXML was selected as a uniform metadata standard for the
LANL Research Library's digital repository. Reasons for the choice
included its relative maturity in the XML standards world, its
familiarity in the library community, and its ability to blend well
with modern mark-up technologies. Perhaps most important for a
nominally bibliographic metadata standard, it can be elegantly
extended to adapt to numerous metadata needs. In the two-plus years
that it has been used to map metadata records in the library's
digital repository, MARCXML has proven itself to be robust and
capable in meeting all requirements without breaking the standard
while remaining flexible and transparent to downstream use.
]]] -- Repository Librarian and the Next Crusade: The Search for a
Common Standard for Digital Repository Metadata
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/september06/goldsmith/09goldsmith.html
Wed, 20 Sep 2006 13:01:36 GMT
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