# Re: Library Standards and URIs

Dirk Herr-Hoyman (hoymand@gate.net)
Wed, 21 Dec 1994 10:16:33 -0500

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    Date: Wed, 21 Dec 1994 10:16:33 -0500

    Message-Id: <ab1e563204021004bb8d@[199.227.1.117]>

    To: weibel@oclc.org, uri@bunyip.com

    From: hoymand@gate.net (Dirk Herr-Hoyman)

    Subject: Re: Library Standards and URIs

At 12:50 PM 12/13/94, weibel@oclc.org wrote:
>V. Possible Candidates for URC Kernels
>
> Text Encoding Initiative Headers:
>
> Part of a ten year project to define the structure (in SGML) of
> scholarly text. Considerable attention has been paid to mapping
> into and out of existing bibliographic data models.
>

I would like to 2nd this suggestion from Stu on 2 points:

1) The TEI header has defined a mapping into MARC, as he noted.

2) Using an SGML syntax would work for less rigorous URC records, as it
provides for a clear grouping and nesting syntax.

Earlier this year, in discussions on this list, a flat mail header style
syntax had been proposed, to which I agreed as a short term strategy. I
would now like to suggest that since we have not yet deployed URCs and that
parsing SGML on the Internet has proven more viable (see the work of
html-wg), that we deploy a syntax beyond a flat mail header, one that
handles nesting in a robust manner.

You can view the TEI spec online at http://etext.virginia.edu/TEI.html.
The relevant section is 6.10. This is also an interesting place to visit
even if you aren't looking at this technical point, as it is an example of
on-the-fly formatting of TEI SGML to HTML.

Happy Holidays to All.

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