OCLC Systems & Services: International digital library perspectives: Volume 17 Issue 3

Metadata for e‐commerce: the ONIX International standard

Norm Medeiros

The Online Information Exchange (ONIX) international standard is a collaborative project aimed at developing descriptive and administrative metadata for books. ONIX was first…

Descriptive metadata strategy for TEI headers: a University of Michigan Library case study

Lynn Marko, Christina Powell

The Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) standard was developed for the humanities scholars to encode textual documents for data interchange and analytic research. Its header segment…

The Cataloger’s Desktop Suite

Jennifer O’Brien Roper, Charley Pennell

The 2001 release 1 version of the Library of Congress’s Cataloger’s Desktop is reviewed. While LC has added new tools, most notably AACR2 and links to Web resources, and has…

The CORC experience: survey of founding libraries. Part I

Ingrid Hsieh‐Yee, Michael Smith

This survey, conducted in late 1999, found that CORC founding libraries shared a strong interest in controlling Internet resources and finding ways to catalog such resources…