1. MARCXML and MarcEdit Gordon Dunsire Depute Director Centre for Digital Library Research Presented to the seminar “Introduction to MARCXML”, National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh, 5 May 2006, organised by the Cataloguing and Indexing Group in Scotland

2. MARCXML  “evolutionary path into XML for MARC21”  Continuing investment in MARC format  Proliferation of other schemas  Rapidly-growing XML environment  Mid-1990s: SGML DTDs for MARC21  Bibliographic; Authority  Very large, every element specified  Early 2000s: XML schema for MARC21  MARCXML, “slim”  Lossless roundtrip conversion

3. MARCXML elements  High-level elements  and  Specify multiple records and single record  MARC field tags and indicators treated as attributes  Only 3 first-level elements required  Hence “slim”

4. MARCXML first-level elements   Treated as a string   Treated as a string   Attributes for tag and indicators  Child element  Repeated for each subfield  Attribute for subfield code

5. MARCXML tools  MARCXML website (Library of Congress)  http://www.loc.gov/standards/marcxml/  Conversion tools, stylesheets  IFLA paper by Sally McCallum  http://www.ifla.org/IV/ifla71/papers/175e- McCallum.pdf  MarcEdit

6. About MarcEdit  Free utility for editing MARC records  Developed by Terry Reece of Oregon State University  From 2000 onwards  Currently in full release version 4.5  Version 5.0 in beta version  http://oregonstate.edu/~reeset/marcedit/ http://oregonstate.edu/~reeset/marcedit/  Downloads, more information

7. MarcEdit functionality [1]  MarcBreaker/MarcMaker  Conversion between MARC Exchange and Display formats  Conversion between MARC Exchange and MARCXML  XSLTs for conversion between MARCXML and Dublin Core, Encoded Archival Description, Metadata Object Description Schema, etc.

8. MarcEdit functionality [2]  And a lot more …  MARC editor to create and amend records  MARC templates for the editor  Z39.50 client  Script (macro) writer to allow sequences of functions to be repeatedly applied  Help  Tutorials

9. MarcEdit tools window

10. Examples of MarcEdit conversion  Using a single MARC21 record  Conversion from exchange to display format  Conversion to MARCXML  Conversion to Dublin Core  Conversion to MODS (Metadata Object Description Schema)  Simpler version of MARC21 in XML  Conversion to OAI (Open Archives Initiative) Dublin Core

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14. 01191nam a2200253Ka 45 0 ocm67705864 OCoLC 20060426101930.0 060426s2006 stk s 100 0 eng d CX@ MARCXML format (using MARC>MARCXML) [1]

15. 025.04 22 CX@A Dunsire, Gordon. The Centre for Digital Library Research and the common information environment [electronic resource] / Gordon Dunsire. MARCXML format (using MARC>MARCXML) [2]

16. The Centre for Digital Library Research and the common information environment [electronic resource] / Gordon Dunsire. Glasgow : Centre for Digital Library Research, [2006]. Mode of access: World Wide Web. Title from title screen. Description based on contents viewed Apr. 26, 2006. MARCXML format (using MARC>MARCXML) [3]

17. System requirements: Plug-in viewer for Adobe Acrobat PDF documents. "The text of a presentation given to the 8th seminar on Archives, Libraries, Museums, 24-26 November 2004, Porec, Croatia." Information storage and retrieval systems. Centre for Digital Library Research. MARCXML format (using MARC>MARCXML) [4]

18. Archives, Libraries, Museums (Conference) (8th : 2004 : Porec, Croatia) cdlr.strath.ac.uk pubs/dunsireg cdlrcie.pdf http://cdlr.strath.ac.uk/pubs/dunsireg/cdlrcie.pdf application/pdf C0 CX@ MARCXML format (using MARC>MARCXML) [5]

19. The Centre for Digital Library Research and the common information environment [electronic resource] / Dunsire, Gordon. Archives, Libraries, Museums (Conference) (8th : 2004 : Porec, Croatia) text Glasgow : Centre for Digital Library Research, [2006]. eng application/pdf Dublin Core (RDF) format (using MARC>Dublin Core) [1]

20. Mode of access: World Wide Web. Title from title screen. Description based on contents viewed Apr. 26, 2006. System requirements: Plug-in viewer for Adobe Acrobat PDF documents. "The text of a presentation given to the 8th seminar on Archives, Libraries, Museums, 24-26 November 2004, Porec, Croatia." Centre for Digital Library Research. Information storage and retrieval systems. http://cdlr.strath.ac.uk/pubs/dunsireg/cdlrcie.pdf Dublin Core (RDF) format (using MARC>Dublin Core) [2]

21. The Centre for Digital Library Research and the common information environment Dunsire, Gordon. creator Archives, Libraries, Museums (Conference) 2004 : Porec, Croatia) MODS format (using MARC21CML>MODS) [1]

22. text conference publication stk Glasgow Centre for Digital Library Research [2006] 2006 monographic eng electronic electronic resource application/pdf MODS format (using MARC21CML>MODS) [2]

23. Gordon Dunsire. Title from title screen. Description based on contents viewed Apr. 26, 2006. "The text of a presentation given to the 8th seminar on Archives, Libraries, Museums, 24-26 November 2004, Porec, Croatia." Mode of access: World Wide Web. System requirements: Plug-in viewer for Adobe Acrobat PDF documents. Information storage and retrieval systems Centre for Digital Library Research. MODS format (using MARC21CML>MODS) [3]

24. http://cdlr.strath.ac.uk/pubs/dunsireg/cdlrcie.pdf http://cdlr.strath.ac.uk/pubs/dunsireg/cdlrcie.pdf CX@ 060426 20060426101930.0 ocm67705864 MODS format (using MARC21CML>MODS) [4]

25. The Centre for Digital Library Research and the common information environment [electronic resource] / Dunsire, Gordon. Archives, Libraries, Museums (Conference) (8th : 2004 : Porec, Croatia) text Dublin Core (OAI) format (using MARC21XML>OAI Dublin Core) [1]

26. Glasgow : Centre for Digital Library Research, [2006]. eng application/pdf Mode of access: World Wide Web. System requirements: Plug-in viewer for Adobe Acrobat PDF documents. Centre for Digital Library Research. Information storage and retrieval systems. http://cdlr.strath.ac.uk/pubs/dunsireg/cdlrcie.pdf Dublin Core (OAI) format (using MARC21XML>OAI Dublin Core) [2]

27. abfghk XSLT for MARCXML>OAI Dublin Core) [extract]