AGAIN: New draft of Z39.50 Bib-2 Attribute Set now available

2nd try to issue the latest draft of Z39.50 Bib-2 Attribute Set

Having changed the initial letter of the file names from upper to lower case
- the links now seem to work.  Because of the abundance of tables in the
main document (which are not handled well in HTML), it is available as a PDF
file.

Bib-2 Attribute Set (Z39.50)

Latest Published version:

Seventh Draft, as of 28 August 2001

Because of the abundance of tables in the main document (which are not
handled well in HTML), it is available as a PDF file.
      http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/iso/z3950/bib-2_draft7.pdf

Document History
      Word 2000:
http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/iso/z3950/bib-2_document_history_20010831.doc

I've added the document history file in html, in reaction to Mike Taylor's &
Rob Sanderson's requests to Ray for analternative document format to Word.  
      HTML:
      http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/iso/z3950/bib-2_document_history_20010831.htm 

	As always, comments are welcome, publically on the ZIG list or to
myself and Lennie Stovel, RLG 	mailto:Lennie_Stovel@notes.rlg.org  

Barbara Shuh
______________________
Barbara Shuh
Library Network Specialist
National Library of Canada
Phone:  (819) 994-6969  Fax:  (819) 994-6835
E-mail:  barbara.shuh@nlc-bnc.ca

> Some of you may get a double posting on this, as I posted it to the ZIG
> list as well as to a list compiled by Lennie Stovel, RLG and myself of
> persons who have indicated an interest in Z39.50 attributes designed for
> use when searching bibliographic databases of descriptions created
> according to accepted cataloguing rules such as the Anglo-American
> Cataloguing Rules.
> 
> It's about a year since I agreed to work on completing a revised
> bibliographic attribute set to be used in conjunction with the "new"
> Z39.50 Attribute Architecture.  So I am most pleased to announce that
> draft 7 of the Bib-2 Attribute Set (Z39.50) is now available on the Bib-2
> home page
> 	http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/iso/z3950/bib-2_home.htm
> 
> The release of this draft is in preparation for a meeting on Bib-2 which
> will be held during the ZIG meetings at the British Library in Boston Spa
> (nr. York) in early October.  At the same meeting there will be an
> presentation to ZIG as a whole on this new attribute set and its companion
> MARC Attribute Set.
> 
> This draft  of the Bib-2 set has what some might interpret as a strong
> MARC21 bias when sources were cited.  This occured as MARC21 is the format
> with which I am most familiar.  But the attribute set will not be complete
> until the set includes references from  sources other than MARC21, such as
> UniMARC, or national MARC formats currently in use.  Therefore, Lennie and
> I would welcome input from European colleagues who would be able and
> willing to contribute this information.
> 
> Thanks to Lennie Stovel, Joe Zeeman, Ralph LeVan, Mark Needleman, Larry
> Dixon and Ray Denenburg who suffered through the offline editing of two
> intermediate drafts since the last public draft was released for the ZIG
> meeting in Washington of December 2001.
>  
> As always, comments are welcome, publically on the ZIG list or to myself
> and Lennie Stovel, RLG 	mailto:Lennie_Stovel@notes.rlg.org  
> 
> 
> Barbara Shuh
> ______________________
> Barbara Shuh
> Library Network Specialist
> National Library of Canada
> Phone:  (819) 994-6969  Fax:  (819) 994-6835
> E-mail:  barbara.shuh@nlc-bnc.ca
>