Data Format Issues and Ideas

Issues (cooked)

Issues (raw)

• Relationship to FRBR and RDA. Is this a time of change that requires a new format, or should these be treated as separate needs?
• Can we tackle just MARC bibliographic, or do we also need to include at least Authorities and Holdings in our analysis?
• MARC causes library data to be marginalized (but MODS, a friendlier XML format, hasn't had much more success at crossing over to other fields)
• How do you express the current table of contents RSS feed for a journal title from CiteULike?
• There are a lot of advantages to MARC. We have a lot of data in MARC. It would be expensive to move whole hog off of it. Maybe we keep MARC for some bibliographic data.
• MARC has many fields and data elements (fixed) that can no longer be expanded, so new data elements cannot be added.
• MARC Bibliographic is not just bibliographic -- there is info for ordering, URLs to related web items, holdings info...
• What fixed fields are used by systems? What need is there to carry this information into a new data format?
• social tagging -- can it work?
• Browsing -- a requirement of the data format, or a system feature, or not needed (because it would be better to use topic maps)?
• Need to list problem data elements, i.e. dates (some ambiguity), genres (see MODS)