Re: Request for Info

Joseph M. Reagle Jr. (reagle@MIT.EDU)
Mon, 22 Feb 1999 09:07:22 -0500


At 12:59 AM 2/21/99 -0500, Kragen Sitaker wrote:
>On Sat, 20 Feb 1999, Tom Whore wrote:
>> Im looking for folks or urls for XML DTDs relating to library or
>> bibliography, that have anything to do with the MARC format to query
>> librarys or not.
>
>I don't know much about MARC. I do know that I tried to put together a
>3NF ERD for the stuff I wanted to do with my personal library, and
>ended up with a thing with a couple of dozen different tables, and
>realized that the MARC format (which I'd seen at a previous library)
>makes things considerably easier.

Just as an aside, the OCLC is very much involved in W3C metadata/RDF work.
http://www.oclc.org/

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