UNIMARC Format Relevance: Maintenance or Replacement? |
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| Authors: | Rosa Maria Galvão |
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| Institution: | Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal, Lisboa, Portugal |
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| Abstract: | This article presents an empirical study focused on a qualitative analysis of the UNIMARC format. An analysis of the structural quality of the data provided by the format is evaluated to determine its current suitability for meeting the requirements and trends in data architecture for the information network and the Semantic Web. Driven by a set of quality characteristics that identify weaknesses in the data schema that cannot be bridged by simply converting data to MARC XML or RDF/XML, we conclude that the UNIMARC format is not compliant with the current metadata schema desiderata and must be replaced. |
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| Keywords: | UNIMARC format bibliographic standards metadata schema bibliographic data – interoperability case studies |
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