4. Traditional cataloguing tools: MARC 21 and MAB
www.loc.gov/marc and
www.dnb.de/DE/Standardisierung/Formate/MAB/mab_node.html
5. MAchine Readable Catalog(u)ing (MaRC)
‘The idea of using computers to speed up
catalogue production goes back to the 1950s
but it was not until 1965 that MARC came into
being’ [Bowman, 2003, p.10]
www.worldcat.org/oclc/760616663
6. MAchine Readable Catalog(u)ing (MaRC)
‘MARC is the most widely used standard for the
storage and communication of bibliographic data
within the world’s libraries’ [Oddy, 1996, p.63]
9. ELAG 2011
MARC must
die?
www.slideshare.net/schambers3/marc-must-die
http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/powers_of_persuasion/hes_watching_you/images_html/wanted_for_murder.html
10. MARC must die?
Bibliographic References:
• MARC Project Final Report (1968)
• @rtennant MARC must die (2002)
• @lukask Who needs MARC? (2009)
• Karen Coyle Metadata Mix and Match (2009)
• Jason Thomale Intepreting MARC (2010)
• Understanding MARC tutorial
11. MARC must die?
Why do techies want to kill MARC?
http://yfrog.com/gycmoafrj
(via @tillk )
Alan Seal: Data Structures, MARC and Online Access.
Essen Symposium 1985: 71-85
http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/indices/a-tree/s/Seal:Alan.html
12. MARC must die?
Why do techies want to kill MARC?
MAchine Readable Cataloguing
is not machine readable
19. Catalysts for cataloguing change?
MARC is… ‘based on forty-year-old
techniques for data management
and is out of step with
programming styles of today’ (p24)
Recomendation 3.1.1. recognise
that ‘MARC is no longer fit for
purpose’ (p25)
www.loc.gov/bibliographic-future/news/lcwg-ontherecord-
jan08-final.pdf
25. Bibliographic Framework Transition Initiative
‘pursuing a replacement of the
MARC format as the common
exchange currency for bibliographic
data’ (p1)
www.loc.gov/marc/transition/pdf/bibframework-10312011.pdf
26. Bibliographic Framework Transition Initiative
‘the semantic web and the linked
data model hold interesting
possibilities for libraries and cultural
heritage insitutions’ (p1)
www.loc.gov/marc/transition/pdf/bibframework-10312011.pdf
27. Bibliographic Framework Transition Initiative
Key to its development ‘the Web
environment, Linked Data Principles
and mechanisms, and the Resource
Discovery Framework (RDF)’ (p2)
www.loc.gov/marc/transition/pdf/bibframework-10312011.pdf
29. Bibliographic Framework Transition Initiative
A major focus of the project is to
translate the MARC 21 format to a
Linked Data (LD) model while
retaining as much as possible the
robust and beneficial aspects of the
historical format.
www.loc.gov/marc/transition/news/modeling-052212.html
30. Bibliographic Framework Transition Initiative
November 2012
‘The new model is more
than a replacement for the
library community’s current
model/format, MARC. It is
the foundation for the
future of bibliographic
description that happens on,
in, and as part of the web
and the networked world
we live in.’ (p3)
www.loc.gov/marc/transition/pdf/marcld-report-11-21-2012.pdf
40. Europeana Data Model (EDM) for Libraries?
www.europeana-
libraries.eu/documents/868553/1eade085-34ac-487f-
82af-d5cd2545e619
http://pro.europeana.eu/docum
ents/900548/978614/Europeana
+Libraries+and+EDM
41. Semantic Web in Libraries (SWIB 2012)
http://swib.org/swib12/programme.php