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>Resent-Subject: MARC/non-MARC
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>Date: Tue, 24 Sep 1996 17:27:51 EDT
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>From: Sherman Clarke <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: MARC/non-MARC
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>Linda, et al.,
>Rumors fly!
>I have not heard the rumor that OCLC is changing MARC tags to use a
>hypertext model using SGML. There has, however, been work in various camps
>toward developing an effective SGML shell for MARC records.
>
>I think your use of mapping is instructive, as that is where the research
>and development seems to be happening these days. No one seems to harbor
>the illusion (?) that all the databases of the world can talk the same
>language. The discussion on many lists (here on ARLIS-L, VRA-L, InterCat,
>museum lists) show that there are advocates for many many database
>structures. Often the database decision has little to do with what's
>"best" -- partly because I don't think any of us realistically expect to
>have the same database structure in ten years. Navigation from one
>database to another, and the ability to migrate your data from one to
>another, are perhaps more important than whether you're in MARC or SGML or
>FileMaker or Embark or whatever.
>
>One good discussion of data models is "Digital image collections:
>cataloging data model and network access" by Stephen Paul Davis in _RLG
>Digital Image Access Project: proceedings ..._ (RLG, 1995). Of course this
>is a couple years old already and who knows if even Stephen would build
>the same model today. The proceedings cited here also include an essay on
>the Berkeley involvement in DIAP and SGML, etc.
>
>I don't know: is this "plain language"? I look forward to the comments of
>others on the topic you bring up, Linda.
>
>Sherman Clarke
>NYU Libraries
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