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Tobias Steiner edited this page Nov 18, 2020 · 6 revisions

Metadata format used in Germany

Seems it is nearing end-of-life with regards to further development, as the national library has started a project to adapt to MARC21, but according to Bülte, in Graf, D., Fadeeva, Y., Falkenstein-Feldhoff, K. (Eds.), 2020, it is still widely used in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

Wikidata has specs:

But still, might be a dead end as catalogs already support MARC21, so maybe rather a historical note of sorts (although there's a mention of hbz (a regional library centre) converting DOAB data from MARC to MAB... so appears to still be in use)

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