HTML-MARC

[Mark H. Witteman]

I passed along the recent web4lib comments on HTML/MARC to Jerry
McDonough, a PhD student at UC Berkeley's School of Information
Management and Systems, who had this comment:


>From jmcd at info.sims.berkeley.edu Fri Aug  9 17:19:08 1996
Subject: Re: (Fwd) Re: HTML-MARC
To: witteman at rci.rutgers.edu (Mark H. Witteman)
Date: Fri, 9 Aug 1996 14:19:00 -0700 (PDT)

[...]

If you want to score points with the mailing list for being in the
know, you can tell them that the Library of Congress MARC Standards
office has a draft of a DTD for all of the USMARC formats completed.
It's currently undergoing review (I'm one of the people looking
it over).  The contractor they hired to do the job is working on
translation tools to move from standard USMARC to SGML/MARC and
back again.  If you want to look over the DTD (be warned: it's
bloody HUGE) it's at ftp.loc.gov in /pub/marc as zmarcdtd.zip and
zmarcent.zip (you'll need both files).

[...]

Jerry McDonough -- jmcd at info.SIMS.Berkeley.EDU        |    (......)
UCB School of Information Management & Systems        |    \ *  * /
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"Don't worry.  I know what I'm doing!"                |     \ -- /  SGNORMPF!!!
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On Aug 9, 11:47am, Gerry McKiernan wrote:
> Subject: HTML-MARC
> 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
> 
>-- End of excerpt from Gerry McKiernan

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