On Mon, 28 Apr 1997, John C Klensin wrote:
> The question is
> whether there are MARC packages out there that, given a
> format name/clue/OID are designed to handle all of them, or
> whether each one is always handled by a separate app. If
> the latter, then one MIME-type each is, with the current
> state of the technology and implementations, the right
> answer.
Well I've yet to see a single specific application that can handle all of
the plethora of MARC derivatives (many OPACs seem to handle one or two
versions; maybe a national MARC format and a vendor specific one, and
some systems vendors hackup database front ends to generate/process
maybe some of the other library types know differently; it wouldn't
surprise me at all if someone hadn't been plugging away for years on some
Über-application that could munge any MARC record that was thrown at it.
Tatty bye,
Jim'll
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