Category: MARC
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rdf:about=”Linked MARC Codes”
I have been slowly taking the MARC codes lists and modeling them as linked data. I released a handful of them several months ago (geographic area codes, countries and languages) and have added more as I get inspired or have some free time. Most recently, I’ve added the Form of Item, Target Audience and Instruments…
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A Proposal to serialize MARC in JSON
Note: to see the backstory and justification of this proposal, please see the preceding post. MARC-in-JSON is a proposed JSON schema for representing MARC records as JSON. It is the outgrowth of working with MARC data in MongoDB and is intended to be both a faithful representation of MARC as well as a logical and…
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For your consideration: yet another MARC-in-JSON proposal pt. 1
Note: this post is broken into two parts. If you are just interested in the MARC-in-JSON technical specification proposal, look here. If you’re interested in the justification and history of it, read on. The easy and obvious reaction to the suggestion of providing new serializations to MARC is to reach for Roy Tennant’s suggestion and…
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Supercharged Ruby MARC
One of the byproducts of the “Communicat” work I had done at Georgia Tech was a variant of Ed Summers‘ ruby-marc that went into more explicit detail regarding the contents inside the MARC record (as opposed to ruby-marc which focuses on its structure). It had been living for the last couple of years as a…