Beth Goldsmith
ABSTRACT
Although often disparaged or dismissed in the library community, the MARC standard, notably the MARCXML standard, provides surprising flexibility and robustness for mapping disparate metadata to a vendor-neutral format for storage, exchange, and downstream use.
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- Looking back, looking forward: a metadata standard for LANL's aDORe repository
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