Re: MARC (Authority) OID? -- possible error on LOC website

Look further down the page:

Record Syntax Object Identifiers for Specific MARC Formats
The following registration scheme for specific MARC formats was approved at
the March 1999 ZIG meeting.
For each general MARC format listed above, the following specific formats
are automatically registered, subordinate to the object identifier for the
general format, 1.2.840.10003.5.1 through 1.2.840.10003.5.30:
  1.. bibliographic
  2.. authority
  3.. holdings
  4.. community information
  5.. classification
Thus for example for USMARC, the following are registered:
      Object Identifier Name  Reference
      1.2.840.10003.5.10.1 USMARC bibliographic USMARC Concise Format for
Bigliographic Data
      1.2.840.10003.5.10.2 USMARC authority USMARC Concise Format for
Authority Data
      1.2.840.10003.5.10.3 USMARC holdings USMARC Concise Format for
Holdings Data
      1.2.840.10003.5.10.4 USMARC community information USMARC Concise
Format for Community Information
      1.2.840.10003.5.10.5 USMARC classification USMARC Concise Format for
Classification Data


When the general object identifier (e.g. 1.2.840.10003.5.10) is used it
identifies the general MARC format (e.g. USMARC) and the specific format is
unspecified. Thus an origin may specify USMARC as the preferred record
syntax on a Present request, and the response might include records of any
of the five specific formats; or the origin might specify USMARC
Bibiliographic as the preferred record syntax, and the response might be
limited to bibliographic records only.





----- Original Message -----
>
> Guys,
>
> I was looking for an OID to ask for records presented in the MARC21
> authority format, and looked at
>
> http://lcweb.loc.gov/z3950/agency/defns/oids.html#5
>
> I didn't offhand spot what I looked for, and yet.... if you look at the
> definition for the "classic" MARC OID -- Record syntax-5-10... it seems to
> refer to the MARC authority format rather than the bibliographic one.
> Surely an error?
>
> --Sebastian
> --
> Sebastian Hammer, Index Data <http://www.indexdata.dk/>
> Ph: +45 3341 0100, Fax: +45 3341 0101

Received on Monday, 8 July 2002 09:47:49 UTC