MARC Community Info standard

[Timothy G. Kambitsch]

The Big Glee Bopper asks:

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We converted a proprietary file format to CIF this summer and now provide
access via our online catalog.  The data is quite a mess right now, but there
are people working on cleaning up the entries.

I also have a WWW to Z39.50 gateway running so that a Web-form search script
allows searching the CIF database.

        <http://www.dayton.lib.oh.us/drabin/niso_forms>

Our Community Information Database is only one of several databases from
a pop-up list.

For an added treat, search the CIF database for "microcomputer" and see how
the 856:u subfield (as borrowed from the other MARC standards) is used
to add URLs as anchors to web pages of organizations found in the database.

I am curious as to any other sites who are running similar webbed access to
a MARC CIF database.

Tim Kambitsch <kambitsch at dayton.lib.oh.us>
Dayton and Montgomery County Public Library                   513-227-9560
215 East Third Street Dayton OH 45402                   fax:  513-227-9524