UNIMARC and international record exchange: an overview of recent projects and developments
Program: electronic library and information systems
ISSN: 0033-0337
Article publication date: 1 September 1997
Abstract
In recent years the UNIMARC format has come to be more widely used as a method of facilitating the international exchange of bibliographic data. This is due, in part, to a number of projects funded by the European Union as part of the Libraries Programme. This paper provides an overview of the state of such projects as reported to a workshop on the UNIMARC format held in Luxembourg in September 1996. Projects briefly described in this overview include: UseMARCON, CoBRA UNIMARC, CoBRA AUTHOR, ONE, CHASE, DELICAT and BIBLINK. Other initiatives related to UNIMARC by IFLA and OCLC are also described. The paper concludes with the main conclusions arising from the workshop addressing the areas of formats, authority control, character sets and electronic publications.
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Citation
Curwen, A.G. (1997), "UNIMARC and international record exchange: an overview of recent projects and developments", Program: electronic library and information systems, Vol. 31 No. 3, pp. 227-238. https://doi.org/10.1108/EUM0000000006887
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:MCB UP Ltd
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