HTML-MARC

[Gerry McKiernan]

Fay Hjartarson, in her recent message raises an important issue that
I do not believe [and I could be wrong [:-{>] has been as extensively
as I be the issue should.

>While we are on the topic of MARC tags and tagging, has anyone heard of a
>MARC tags  conversion program to SGML tags ? We are looking at creating an
>SGML tagged repository of bibliographic information, which we think could be
>much more flexible when we want to create outputs.

In my Position Paper prepared for the Colloquium of the Internet Cataloging
Project, I advance the notion of extending MARC with HTML to create a
cataloging tagging format that would make use of the extensive investment
in MARC (and usefulness, as well) in the Web environment. The URL for my
paper is:

        http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/OCLC.htm

My discussion of 'HTML-MARC' can be found in the 'Presenting' section
of the Paper. In it I note a similar observation that Fay has
made concerning the potential benefit (and certainly the need)
for this type of functionality.

   I will be preparing a White Paper (Paper? [:-)] about my concept
of HTML-MARC and would greatly appreciate reactions to the skeletal
proposal and the characteristics of an associated DTD.

   Regards,

Gerry McKiernan
Curator, CyberStacks(sm)
Iowa State University
152 Parks Library
Ames IA 50011

gerrymck at iastate.edu