{"id":2894,"date":"2009-04-08T13:09:05","date_gmt":"2009-04-08T17:09:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/?p=2894"},"modified":"2009-04-08T13:09:05","modified_gmt":"2009-04-08T17:09:05","slug":"time-for-marc-to-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/08\/time-for-marc-to-go.html","title":{"rendered":"Time for Marc to go"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/future4catalogers.wordpress.com\/2009\/04\/07\/marc-was-a-good-loyal-mule-but-its-time-to-shoot-it\/\"><strong>Marc was a Good &amp; Loyal Mule but Now It&#8217;s Time to Shoot It<\/strong><\/a> is a post over on the Future4catalogers blog that does an effective job at explaining why the library community should be focusing on using a new, more powerful (and easier to learn, use, explain, and mashup) metadata structure.<\/p>\n<p>I suspect that part of the problem lies with people who don&#8217;t really know what a marc record looks like, and why it is nearly impossible to work with in its native form.\u00a0 From the essay:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>To do anything with a Marc record, it must be disassembled and reconstituted in pieces.\u00a0 Even the displays we see as Marc workforms require this disassembly and reassembly to make it comprehensible to catalogers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Most see the nicely formatted row-by-row marc view that can be seen on some library OPACs as well as cataloging software in our ILS platforms.\u00a0 If you have ever opened a pure marc file in a text editor, you would quickly conclude that locating and understanding information in the record is very challenging, and the thought of editing the record in this form is crazy talk.<\/p>\n<p>If a good and robust metadata format were used instead, then the data could be arranged and edited in a wide variety of ways (including replication of the standard cataloging interface).\u00a0 Even better, however, is that one can open, view, and edit the record (or even a large group of records) within a text editor (though there are and will be many tools to streamline and simplify the process).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marc was a Good &amp; Loyal Mule but Now It&#8217;s Time to Shoot It is a post over on the Future4catalogers blog that does an effective job at explaining why the library community should be focusing on using a new, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/08\/time-for-marc-to-go.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2922,2940,2943,2944,2982,2966,2981],"tags":[5341,5356,4845,5358,4459,4458,5367,4460],"class_list":["post-2894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cataloging","category-ils","category-libraries","category-library-20","category-open-source","category-software","category-xml","tag-cataloging","tag-ils","tag-large-group","tag-libraries","tag-marc","tag-metadata","tag-opac","tag-text-editor"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pSU5g-KG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2894\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}