Morgan:
Have you ever heard from the VRA community that they are developing a
schema for VRA Core Categories?
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Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2002 11:58 AM
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Subject: Re: [METS] Extensionn Schema Endorsements
I added a link to MARCXML from the METS webpage. When any METS
endorsements become official we will make a clear distinction on the
webpage between "endorsed schemas" and "others".
Morgan Cundiff
Library of Congress
On Tue, 9 Jul 2002, Foster Zhang wrote:
> Based on METS webpage http://www.loc.gov/standards/mets/, MODS is
> listed as one of the METS extension schema, MARCXML has not been
> listed there. Someone forgot to update the web page? Foster Zhang
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> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Jerome McDonough
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> At 07:50 AM 7/9/2002 -0400, you wrote:
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> >With regard to a provisional endorsement of the MARCXML schema, is it
> >possible that the editorial board will endorse MODS in addition to
> >MARCXML?
>
> The board will probably be discussing this, but I suspect we'll put a
> somewhat higher priority on endorsing extension schema in cases where
> a variety of schema already exist for the same metadata set (as has
> happened with DC and MARC) and we want to promote interoperability by
> encouraging people to settle on a particular schema implementation.
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