Study on the Replacement of MARC's Function
Jiang Bo · Journal of Library and Information Sciences in Agriculture · 2011
MARC has three major functions,including data description,data access,and data exchange.MARC's duality of subject led to functional boundaries blurred,its semantics,syntax tied to the physical structure.MARC's function of data access has been replaced by RDBMS.LOC has been identified to replace MARC with XML in data exchange,and recently proposed of re-evaluate MARC's function of data description.MARC facing serious challenges will be replaced.