Titia writes:
"Cataloguers will need a higher-metadata language that can translate to
DC/1:1/RDF/XML."
Of course, they will use software tools to write xml/rdf output.
Cataloguers don't write MARC records either but catalogue into interfaces
which output the interchange format. Software tools display the resulting
records differently in different use environments. Every searching
environment searches the MARC records differently too.
David Bearman
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Archives & Museum Informatics
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Pittsburgh, PA 15217 USA
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