Is The Library Of Congress’ Data Carrier Out Of Date?

November 4, 2011 / Melody Smith / Comments Off on Is The Library Of Congress’ Data Carrier Out Of Date?

The Working Group of the Future of Bibliographic Control wrote that the Library community’s data carrier, MARC, is “based on forty-year-old techniques for data management and is out of step with programming styles of today.” This interesting information comes from News & Announcements on the Library of Congress site in the post titled, “A Bibliographic Framework for the Digital Age.”

The same group is calling for a format that will better accommodate the automation and self-generating metadata that the onslaught of digital data has created. They agree that MARC has served the library community well in the pre-Web environment, but something new is now needed and they are calling upon the Library of Congress to take action.

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Melody Smith

Melody K. Smith has provided organizational, social media and digital communication services to a large non-profit for the past twenty years. Prior to that she championed employee engagement and communications in the healthcare field. She holds a Bachelors degree in Marketing. When not wrangling and writing TaxoDiary content for your reading pleasure, Melody writes fiction, rescues dogs and throws legendary dinner parties.