Category: 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…

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…