Re: References to "MARC" -- and a search-and-replace gone bad...?

Tom
 
Yes, I think that is correct.
 
Cheers
 
Gordon 



On 06 October 2011 at 16:41 Tom Baker <tbaker@tbaker.de> wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 06, 2011 at 11:03:57AM +0100, Gordon Dunsire wrote:
> > I think MARC21 is the name of a specific MARC (MAchine-Readable Cataloging)
> > format. So MARC21 is not spelled out, but MARC should be, on first mention
> > (as
> > usual).
>
> I have inserted "(MAchine-Readable Cataloging)" into the text in 4.1.5.2 of
> [1].  In [2] - in accordance with Gordon's suggestion - I also changed
>
>     Developers will also no longer have to work with library-specific data
>     formats, such as ISO 2709 and the MAchine-Readable Cataloging format
>(MARC)
>
> to:
>
>     Developers will also no longer have to work with library-specific data
>     formats, such as ISO 2709 and MAchine-Readable Cataloging (MARC)
>
> Gordon, is that correct?
>
> In so doing, I discovered what appears to be the result of a
> search-and-replace
> on references to "HTTP" that hit more targets than intended.  Stripping away
> the accompanying text in Section 2.1.4 [3], the links in that section (and in
> many others) look like the following:
>
>     <a href="<abbr title="Hypertext Transfer Protocol"><abbr title="Hypertext
>Transfer
>Protocol">HTTP</abbr></abbr>://www.niso.org/standards/resources/Z39.50_Resources">Z39.50</a>
>
>     <a href="<abbr title="Hypertext Transfer Protocol"><abbr title="Hypertext
>Transfer
>   
> Protocol">HTTP</abbr></abbr>://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypertext_Transfer_Protocol">Hypertext
>     Transport Protocol (<abbr title="Hypertext Transfer Protocol"><abbr
>     title="Hypertext Transfer Protocol">HTTP</abbr></abbr>)</a>
>
>     <a href="<abbr title="Hypertext Transfer Protocol"><abbr title="Hypertext
>Transfer
>   
> Protocol">HTTP</abbr></abbr>://www.iso.org/iso/iso_catalogue/catalogue_tc/catalogue_detail.htm?csnumber=41319">ISO
>     2709</a><a href="<abbr title="Hypertext Transfer Protocol"><abbr
>title="Hypertext Transfer
>     Protocol">HTTP</abbr></abbr>://loc.gov/marc/"></a> and the <a href="<abbr
>     title="Hypertext Transfer Protocol"><abbr title="Hypertext Transfer
>     Protocol">HTTP</abbr></abbr>://loc.gov/marc/">MAchine-Readable
>     Cataloging</a>
>
>     <abbr title="Hypertext Transfer Protocol"><abbr title="Hypertext Transfer
>     Protocol">HTTP</abbr></abbr>
>
> It looks like the problem is systematic in MainReport.html.
>
> Tom
>
> [1] dropbox:lldDraft/Vocabulary-and-Dataset.html
> [2] dropbox:lldDraft/MainReport.html
> [3] dropbox:lldDraft/MainReport.html#Benefits_to_developers_and_vendors
>
> --
> Tom Baker <tom@tombaker.org>