Coding with XML for Efficiencies in Cataloging and Metadata

Timothy W Cole

ISBN 10: 1783303697 / ISBN 13: 9781783303694

Published by Facet Publishing Apr 2018, 2018

About this Item

Neuware - This new handbook from the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS) provides essential guidance for creating metadata for sharing bibliographic records or digital collections on the web. Covers XML basics and XLML scripting, HTML for XML, XQuery, XPath and XSLT. Includes coding examples with common strings and expressions.

Seller Inventory # 9781783303694

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Coding with XML for Efficiencies in Cataloging and Metadata
• Publisher: Facet Publishing Apr 2018
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1783303697
• ISBN 13: 9781783303694
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 229W x 177H x 12D millimeters 229 millimeters width by 177 millimeters height by 12 millimeters depth
• Weight: 330 grams

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Synopsis

Even experienced cataloguers and copy cataloguers who know their way around the tags and strings of a MARC record need guidance when creating metadata for sharing bibliographic records or digital collections on the web. Likewise, coders or new librarians coming from iSchool or software backgrounds need examples of how to use XLML or XSLT scripting with library records. That’s where this new handbook from the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS) comes in. Librarians working in their code editors will want this resource, with its 58 sample coding examples, at their side. It covers

• essential background information, with a quick review of XML basics
• transforming XML metadata in HTML
• schema languages and workflows for XML validation
• an introduction to XPath and XSLT
• cataloguing workflows using XSLT
• the basics of XQuery, including use cases and XQuery expressions and functions
• working with strings and sequences, including regular expressions.

About the Author

Timothy W Cole is Professor of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Myung-Ja (MJ) K Han is a Metadata Librarian and Associate Professor of Library Administration at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Christine Schwartz is a Metadata Librarian and XML Database Administrator at Princeton Theological Seminary.