Daily Archives: April 13, 2009

MARC-Hash: a proposed format for JSON/YAML/Whatever-compatible MARC records

In my first shot at MARC-in-JSON, which I appropriately (and prematurely) named MARC-JSON, I made a point of losing round-tripability (to and from MARC) in order to end up with a nice, easy-to-work-with data structure based mostly on hashes. “Who really cares what order the subfields come in?” I asked myself.

Well, of course, it turns [...]