Putting XML to Work in the Library: Tools for Improving Access and Management - Softcover

American Library Association

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0838908632 ISBN 13: 9780838908631

Publisher: American Library Association, 2003

Synopsis

Miller and Clarke, both affiliated with Lane Medical Library, Stanford University Medical Center, outline steps to help libraries make the most of XML. They explain what XML is and why it's important, show how it integrates with MARC and AACR data, and show how to use XML's style sheets and schemas.

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Review

""Despite its high-tech mystique, the XML family of technologies offers relatively simple building blocks that can be combined to develop elegant solutions to complex problems. This toolkit approach bestows the advantages of modular solutions, particularly well suited for the ever-changing digital environment."

About the Author

Dick R. Miller is the head of technical services at the Lane Medical Library at the Stanford University Medical Center. His extensive information systems experience led to his early promotion of using XML in libraries, notably in "XML: Libraries' Strategic Opportunity," published in the summer 2000 issue of Library Journal NetConnect, In addition he led in the development of XOBIS, an experimental schema for bibliographic and authority information and has advocated an XML replacement for MARC, Formerly, Miller was associates librarian at Northeastern Ohto Universities College of Medicine. He has made a number of presentations on XML for groups such as ALA's MARBI/CC:DA, the Medical Library Association, and most recently the FRBR Working Group of IFLA. He earned his MLS from the University of Oklahoma.

Kevin S. Clarke is a digital information systems developer at Lane Medical Library at the Stanford University Medical Center. He was formerly a digital information systems programmer at Lane and a cataloging assistant at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He was a co-presenter on XML for Librarians," a continuing on "XML for Librarians," a continuing education course at the Medical Library Association meeting in Florida in 2001and wrote "Updating MARC records with XMLMARC" in XML in Libraries. He received an MSIS from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hil.

Edition details

• Publisher: American Library Association
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0838908632
• ISBN 13: 9780838908631
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 277