Hi all,
If anyone in the Ottawa (Ontario) area is interested, I’m proposing an
informal code4lib North pub meetup:
Date: Wednesday March 28, 5-7 PM
Location: Royal Oak on Bank and Gloucester (on the corner across from
L’Esplanade Laurier).
Beginners welcome!
Let me know if you’re interested, and
MARC is a pain to work with; this is a truism which most of us should be
familiar with.
Blindly moving away from MARC is not the solution, indeed history
suggests that path leads us back to an even more complex version of MARC.
MARC is complex (and thus a pain) for three reasons: (a) the inhe
There was a system developed back in the '80s which stored its records
internally in a direct Entity-Relationship database and allowed inter-record
linking and a rather hyperlink-like data structure. BUT... that was all
internal. It allowed some very nice OPAC features and possibly easier
catal
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Hi Matt,
The Colorado Library Consortium (CLiC) has a free download of MARC records for
the top 500 most popular ebooks from Project Gutenberg:
http://www.clicweb.org/import-marc-records
The records have been cleaned up/enhanced by catalogers, including the addition
of an 856$z for all the ebo
Matt, you also may want to explore the exciting world of batch Marc record
editing. Pick a language with a well maintained Marc library and you can fix
those records with data you harvest online.
Bess
On Mar 14, 2012, at 12:53 PM, Jon Gorman wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 2:41 PM, Matt Amo
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On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 2:41 PM, Matt Amory wrote:
> Thanks for all the responses. Perhaps I woke up thos morning on the wrong
> side of MARC.
> What I'm really after is a way to display links to project Gutenberg titles
> in III Encore and not having MARC records is one technical hurdle, as is
On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 9:37 AM, Owen, Will wrote:
> Endeca provides a public interface to library holdings: it is not
> and could not be an ILS, performing functions like circulation, accounting
> control, etc. In this respect it's more akin to Blacklight that to an ILS.
One could build the c
Yes, there are non-MARC systems out there. I think InMagic has some.
LibraryThing could be used and doesn't require MARC. There are some
home inventory programs that might do for a small church library or
such.
But what is the problem with MARC? The structure is fairly compact,
compared to XLM f
Thanks for all the responses. Perhaps I woke up thos morning on the wrong side
of MARC.
What I'm really after is a way to display links to project Gutenberg titles in
III Encore and not having MARC records is one technical hurdle, as is not
having consistent display of URLs from field 856.
Th
The real key to moving libraries away from MARC will probably be transformation
of the sharing situation. Open linked data gives promise of being able to do
this (if everyone was able to harvest whatever "triples" they needed for
whatever they wanted to describe) -- but wouldn't there need to b
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It would probably help frame your question a bit if you went into a little more
detail as to where you think the problem is.
Are your catalogers struggling with some particular kind of data entry?
Is it that you're trying to do stuff with MARC data (say, via an export or
something) and you find
On 2012-03-14, at 2:11 PM, Bess Sadler wrote:
> Q1. Is there an ILS that is not based on MaRC records?
>
> A1. No, not to my knowledge. Yes, marc cataloging can seem tedious and
> arcane, but we have lots of tools for working with it at this point. All
> commercial ILS vendors that I am aware o
One thing I haven't heard anyone talk about is that while MARC can be
complicated, the abundance of MARC records available makes it rather
easy to populate an ILS as long as you don't have to do [mostly]
original cataloging. For example, the Career Development Center on
campus here uses Koha. They
On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 2:17 PM, Wilfred Drew wrote:
> I did not mean to sound snarky in my earlier message but I do not
> understand why no one is talking about standards and why we have them.
> This includes standard ways to present and transmit data between systems.
> That is oen of the big
I did not mean to sound snarky in my earlier message but I do not understand
why no one is talking about standards and why we have them. This includes
standard ways to present and transmit data between systems. That is oen of the
big reasons for using MARC.
Hi, Matt.
Welcome to code4lib. Good question! Here's a quick summary of my understanding
of what I think you're asking:
Q1. Is there an ILS that is not based on MaRC records?
A1. No, not to my knowledge. Yes, marc cataloging can seem tedious and arcane,
but we have lots of tools for working wi
That was my impression...
I should have mentioned the efforts just starting within my current project to
map MaRC (or flavour[s] thereof!) to the open LIDO standard:
http://network.icom.museum/cidoc/working-groups/data-harvesting-and-interchange.html
It's interesting in that it will hopefully e
The Endeca implementation at the Triangle Research Libraries Network (and
indeed, in general) is an *index* of information about items in our
libraries' collections. The format of the data that's fed into the index
can be (and is) variable: we're about to start loading items from our
digital colle
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Matt,
Looks to me at a cursory glance that at least one Endeca implementation is
still drawing on MaRC data:
http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/endeca/technology.html
...even if not directly using MaRC for search:
http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/endeca/faqs.html
MaRC is simply the widest-used library standard.
So you want a non-standard way to display and use what your library has? What
about future moves to another ILS? What about getting your ILS to work with
other systems or web services? There are reasons for standards. It is not to
make our jobs harder.
Bill Drew
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Is there a full-featured ILS that is not based on MARC records?
I know we love complexity, but it seems to me that my public library and
its library network and maybe even every public library could probably do
without 95% of MARC Fields and encoding, streamline workflows and save $ if
there were a
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