If it's not important to look like MARC data, take a look at the MODS
and Dublin Core transformations, which are more human-friendly
representations of this sort of data:
http://www.loc.gov/standards/marcxml/Sandburg/sandburgmods.xml
http://www.loc.gov/standards/marcxml/Sandburg/sandburgdc.xml
Perhaps the example could look something like this in XHTML:
<div class="book" lang="en">
<h3 class="fn">Arithmetic /</h3>
<p>By <span class="creator"><span class="fn">Sandburg, Carl</span>,
<span class="date">1878-1967</span></span>, and <span
class="illustrator">Rand, Ted</span></p>
<p>Publisher: <span class="publisher"><span class="fn">Harcourt Brace
Jovanovich</span>, <span class="locality">San Diego</span></span></p>
<p>Published: <span class="issued">1993</span></p>
<p class="description">A poem about numbers and their characteristics.
Features anamorphic, or distorted, drawings which can be restored to
normal by viewing from a particular angle or by viewing the image's
reflection in the provided Mylar cone.</p>
<p class="note">One Mylar sheet included in pocket.</p>
<p>Subjects:</p>
<ul>
<li class="subject">Arithmetic</li>
<li class="subject">Children's poetry, American.</li>
<li class="subject">Arithmetic</li>
<li class="subject">American poetry</li>
<li class="subject">Visual perception</li>
</ul>
</div>
Cheers,
Phil
Edward Vielmetti wrote:
Thanks Benjamin. I'm actually not after an XML-coded
raw MARC format, let me explain the use case a little
better.
Our library has RSS feeds for all sorts of patron searches
through the catalog (note "patron", not "cataloger"). I'm
aiming for a microformat to mark up that RSS so that
a minimally smart reader or application can pull out
fields and do something useful with them.
The intended use can be envisaged by looking at this
posting:
http://vielmetti.typepad.com/vacuum/2005/12/duckytool_searc.html
showing a command-line library search tool, and
http://vielmetti.typepad.com/vacuum/2005/12/a_design_for_a_.html
with a design for an IM library bot that would read a microformatted
RSS feed and transform queries into appropriate responses.
thanks
Ed
On 12/19/05, Benjamin Carlyle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Tue, 2005-12-20 at 16:32 +1300, Phillip Pearson wrote:
This would probably make more sense over on the microformats-discuss
list. Edward - visit
http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss/ to join.
Edward Vielmetti wrote:
I'm looking for suggestions for a microformat
suitable to recommend to my library which
produces an RSS feed as a result set for
a search through its library catalog.
hReview isn't quite right, and there's a lot
of potentially useful book metadata that
comes from a standard format (US-MARC)
and should be straightforward to map in.
MARC is also the name of what we use in Australia, especially in
academic libraries. My spouse works in this field, but isn't sure if the
encoding is the same as US MARC or not. According to wikipedia[1], it is
US MARC.
In the primary school library where she currently works, she makes
extensive use of the scis[2] database. This is a subscriber-only system
that allows users to search for already-catalogued works so that they
can avoid doing the original cataloguing over again. The user enters
ISBNs for those works that have them, and SCIS numbers that need to be
searched for when items do not have an ISBN. The list of ISBN and SCIS
numbers is entered into a dialogue, and a usmarc.dat file is produced
for download. This file is imported into the local library system, and
bob's your uncle.
Interestingly, this isn't an XML MARC. It is still the original system,
which looks something like this:
00741nam 2200265 a
4500001000800000005001700008007000300025008004100028020001500069040000900084082002000093100001600113245004100129260003900170300002300209440002500232440003800257500004100295500001400336650002200350650002200372650002700394650002700421650002700448 1050689 20010622154425.0 ta 010622s2000
at |000 0 eng d a1862830517 aW.A. 14 a796.5 bGRA 2a13 1
aGrant, Jim. 10 aEveryone likes ....
It seems likely that any microformatted MARC would have to be able to be
translated back to this version for import to local tools in order to be
useful.
--
Benjamin Carlyle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MARC_21
[2] http://www.curriculum.edu.au/scis/
--
Edward Vielmetti in Ann Arbor, MI 48104
+1 734 276 5910
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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