What _should_ we be doing with bibliographic data (Was: Slightly OT: MARC)

stuart yeates <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.text.xml.xtm.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
We (http://www.nzetc.org/) are a digital publisher using topic maps 
extensively (for people, works, images, logical sections of works, 
places, etc, etc).

We distribute our works packaged as ePub format eBooks. The format 
allows us to include extra data files into them. Currently the only 
'extra' metadata we ship with is as many identifiers as possible (see 
previous in thread on the non-uniqueness of unique identifiers).

Given that we can't put our entire topic map into every ePub (due to 
size constraints), what should we include, in what formats and how are 
others (specifically other topic maps people) likely to use it?

We've thought of putting a blob of MARCXML and/or XTM into the ePub, but 
we're not sure there'd be any consumers for it.

cheers
stuart
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Stuart Yeates
http://www.nzetc.org/       New Zealand Electronic Text Centre
http://researcharchive.vuw.ac.nz/     Institutional Repository
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