[XML4Lib] mods: the new marc?

[Eric Lease Morgan]

On Dec 17, 2007, at 10:16 AM, Deridder, Jody L wrote:

> As you know, MODS was developed from MARC but still has many of the
> same drawbacks.  I'm wondering if the best solution at present isn't
> some combination scheme in RDF format.



Yes, I understand this, and consequently I think some flavor(s) of  
RDF might be the "best" direction to take. I discovered the following  
"RDFizers" last night after my posting. They allow you to convert  
things like email, MARC, MODS, OAI-PMH, and to some extent JPEG into  
RDF/XML. There are many others as well. Pretty cool:

   http://simile.mit.edu/wiki/RDFizers

The resulting RDF files are not the same from data format to data  
format, but it is a beginning.

I haven't looked at ORE, yet.

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