On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 1:24 PM, Eric Lease Morgan <emor...@nd.edu> wrote: > Listen... What you hear from over here is the sound of a very heavy sigh > coming from a computer type who really wants to help improve the way library > data is used in a networked environment, but they can't convince their own > to modify the way they encode information.
See also Fiander, David J. "Applying XML to the Bibliographic Description." Cataloging and Classification Quarterly 33, no. 2 (2001): 17-28. Fiander, David J., and D. Grant Campbell. "An XML Definition for an ISBD-Based Encoding Scheme." Journal of Internet Cataloging 6, no. 4 (2003): 29-58. Which is what happens when a computer type starts de novo with the cataloguing standards and builds simple data structures.