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Table of contents

Slide 1: XML and MARC: A Choice or Replacement?

Slide 2: The Medlane Project

Slide 3: Experimenting with MARC and XML

Slide 4: The Digital Divide

Slide 5: The MARC Record

Slide 6: What's Wrong with MARC?

Slide 7: MARC's Control (Fixed) Fields

Slide 8: MARC's Excessive Efficiency

Slide 9: MARC's Organizational Inconsistencies

Slide 10: What are the Alternatives?

Slide 11: The Literal Translation of MARC

Slide 12: LC's MARC XML

Slide 13: XML-based AACR2 Schemas

Slide 14: MODS (the Metadata Object Description Schema)

Slide 15: Developing a New Library Information Data Structure

Slide 16: Goals of XOBIS Development

Slide 17: The Structure of a XOBIS Record

Slide 18: Principal Elements

Slide 19: Element Use

Slide 20: Does XOBIS Succeed? Pt. 1

Slide 21: Does XOBIS Succeed? Pt. 2

Slide 22: Database Validation

Slide 23: Subjects vs. Concepts

Slide 24: What's Next?

Slide 25: The End

Author: Kevin S. Clarke

E-mail: ksclarke@stanford.edu

Homepage: http://xobis.stanford.edu/