>From: "Rebecca S. Guenther" <[log in to unmask]>
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>We were planning to register .mrc for MARC, but had not been able to
>figure out what to put in the IANA form. We will look at it again and try
>to get it done. Since MARC is a record structure and the various flavors
>are basically the same structure, we weren't going to register separate
>ones for UNIMARC, USMARC, etc.
Rebecca -- I want to point out that there are ISO object identifiers for many
of the marc formats, specifically:
Unimarc 1.2.840.10003.5.1
Intermarc 1.2.840.10003.5.2
CCF 1.2.840.10003.5.3
USmarc 1.2.840.10003.5.10
UKmarc 1.2.840.10003.5.11
Normarc 1.2.840.10003.5.12
Librismarc 1.2.840.10003.5.13
Danmarc 1.2.840.10003.5.14
Finmarc 1.2.840.10003.5.15
MAB 1.2.840.10003.5.16
Canmarc 1.2.840.10003.5.17
SBN 1.2.840.10003.5.18
Picamarc 1.2.840.10003.5.19
Ausmarc 1.2.840.10003.5.20
Ibermarc 1.2.840.10003.5.21
Plus a few more, and room for any additional ones required..
The 1.2.840.10003 prefix is the ISO/ANSI assigned oid for Z39.50 (1.2.840 is
assigned by ISO to ANSI, and 10003 is assigned by ANSI to Z39,50 with
the Library of Congress as the registration authority) the "5" suffix is for
"record syntax", one of several object classes defined by Z39.50.
These object identifiers are intended for general use, not specific to Z39.50.
The fact that they are registered on the Z39.50 tree is simply an
administrative mechanism with no protocol significance.
Ray Denenberg
Library of Congress
202-707-5795
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