Re: Slightly OT: MARC

Hi Lars:

I can´t say you that. I´m not a computer guy :-) (easier to parse = 
easier to read by a computer or program? or not so easy?)

MODS is "a subset of MARC fields and uses language-based tags rather 
than numeric ones, in some cases regrouping elements from the MARC 21 
bibliographic format".
So, is simpler than MARC.

You can read the folowing at [1]:
"Alexander Sigel dropped me some mail (which is always welcome) to 
point out something he’d put together when looking into topic maps and 
XTM: FRBR and XTM. Have a look, especially if you’re interested in RDF.

He suggested that perhaps FRBR had been discussed at TMRA 2005: 
International Workshop on Topic Map Research and Applications, but I 
didn’t see anything...
.....

      Hyun-Sil Lee, Yang-Seung Jeon, Sung-Kook Han. 2005 October 7. 
MARCXTM: topic maps modeling of MARC bibliographic information. In 
Topic Map Research and Applications. 
http://www.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/~tmra05/PRES/SHY.ppt

         Their talk concludes:
      “XTM is inappropriate to represent MARC format due to its 
idiosyncratic structure and dependency between data elements.

      Metadata models similar to Dublin Core or MODS are necessary for 
XTM modeling of MARC.

      FRBR (Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records) 
framework is an attractive model for XTM modeling of bibliographic 
information system.”"

(as Alexander said too)

lexander Sigel wrote about that in 
http://web.archive.org/web/20060223065319/http://kpeer.wim.uni-koeln.de/~sigel/Projects/FRBR_and_XTM.html

Best regards,

[1] http://www.frbr.org/2005/10/14/sigel-frbr-and-xtm

Lars Heuer <[email protected]> dijo:

> Hi María Jesús,
>
> [...]
>> I didn´t understand you. You was looking for an unique identifier. Forget
>> MODS for this task. :-)
>
> You meant MODS is easier to handle since it is easier to parse?
>
> Best regards,
> Lars
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