MARC to DC XML at CUL Marty Kurth Metadata Working Group September 20, 2002
Good crosswalks matter Crosswalks make retrieval systems work Broadly speaking, Voyager indexes are crosswalksVoyager indexes Any amount of detail helps, though more detail is better Anymorebetter Crosswalks make interoperability possible
Liberating MARC MARC XML makes MARC more syntactically interoperable MARC XML It serves as a “bus” for further transformationsbus It preserves the richness of the MARC record
CUL MARC transformations The CUL ENCompass Team sought to meet e-Reference needs We created a Web interface for system- wide accessWeb interface We enhanced LC’s DC XML stylesheet
Applications Transform MARC records to DC XML for e-Reference in ENCompassMARCDC XML Other possibilities for MARC XML in delivering CUL services?