Bob Pearson of OCLC has mapped ONIX to MARC21, and Alan Danskin of the
British Library has mapped ONIX to UNIMARC.

Regards


Cliff Morgan



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"Bigwood, David" <[log in to unmask]>@JISCMAIL.AC.UK> on 02/01/2001
14:37:19

Please respond to "Bigwood, David" <[log in to unmask]>

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Subject:  Re: [Fwd: [ONIX_IMPLEMENT] Digest Number 48]


DC was conceived as a general purpose standard for description and
discovery
of on-line resources.  ONIX is for a more specific group of users with more
needs than simple description and discovery.  DC is not meant to be all
things to all people.

I do hope they are talking to the MARC folks. There is much more overlap
with that format and both groups of users could benefit from
interoperatbility between ONIX and MARC. The vast number of records in MARC
could provide a starting place for ONIX records for items already in print.
Later ONIX records could provide a starting place for MARC records. The two
communities have much to gain from cooperation.

Sincerely,
David Bigwood
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> From:         David Dorman[SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Reply To:     David Dorman
> Sent:         Friday, December 29, 2000 12:00 PM
> To:   [log in to unmask]
> Subject:      [Fwd: [ONIX_IMPLEMENT] Digest Number 48]
>
> I thought this post would be of interest--and concern--to the DC
> community.  Apparently, the people who are working on the ONIX standard
> see no reason to coordinate their efforts with the DC Initiative.  It
> seems to me that the ONIX standard could appropriately be developed as a
> DC extension for the ebook community, but that opportunity will be lost
> if the two communities do not coordinate their efforts.
>
> David
>
>