Comments on: MARC-Hash: a proposed format for JSON/YAML/Whatever-compatible MARC records http://robotlibrarian.billdueber.com/marc-hash-a-proposed-format-for-jsonyamlwhatever-compatible-marc-records/ Disclaimer: I'm not actually a robot. Thu, 08 Jul 2010 20:37:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Bill http://robotlibrarian.billdueber.com/marc-hash-a-proposed-format-for-jsonyamlwhatever-compatible-marc-records/comment-page-1/#comment-78 Bill Mon, 13 Apr 2009 23:27:23 +0000 http://robotlibrarian.billdueber.com/marc-hash-a-proposed-format-for-jsonyamlwhatever-compatible-marc-records/#comment-78 <p>Meh. I agree -- and hence the disclaimers --- that it's nothing special. But "nothing special that everyone agrees on" is better than no agreement at all, and for some people XML processing is a barrier they don't want to have to deal with. For all its seeming ubiquity, lots of folks never have to deal with XML in their programming.</p> <p>I guess my thing is, "IF we're going to serialize MARC as JSON/YAML/Whatnot, let's all do it the same way."</p> Meh. I agree — and hence the disclaimers — that it’s nothing special. But “nothing special that everyone agrees on” is better than no agreement at all, and for some people XML processing is a barrier they don’t want to have to deal with. For all its seeming ubiquity, lots of folks never have to deal with XML in their programming.

I guess my thing is, “IF we’re going to serialize MARC as JSON/YAML/Whatnot, let’s all do it the same way.”

]]> By: Jonathan Rochkind http://robotlibrarian.billdueber.com/marc-hash-a-proposed-format-for-jsonyamlwhatever-compatible-marc-records/comment-page-1/#comment-77 Jonathan Rochkind Mon, 13 Apr 2009 22:09:51 +0000 http://robotlibrarian.billdueber.com/marc-hash-a-proposed-format-for-jsonyamlwhatever-compatible-marc-records/#comment-77 <p>This is basically just MARC-XML translated to JSON, yes?</p> <p>Do you really find it easier to work with than MARC-XML? I guess if you're doing your work in javascript, maybe.</p> This is basically just MARC-XML translated to JSON, yes?

Do you really find it easier to work with than MARC-XML? I guess if you’re doing your work in javascript, maybe.

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