Product Description
Today, more and more database companies and digital projects are using XML (Extensible Markup Language). Library professionals especially technical service librarians, metadata librarians, system librarians, and library Webmaster who want to stay current need this book. XML is becoming the standard for content description and metadata exchange. It can handle special characters and non-Roman scripts which librarians o en encounter in the bibliographic environment and offers the greatest promise of data longevity. This book will: introduce you to XML for resource description and bibliographic data management; show you how to create XML records for metadata encoding; help you understand and use DTD (Document Type Definition) and schema for texts, bibliographic catalogs, and authority files; and show you how to deliver XML documents through the Web. Here is the resource you need to put XML to work in your library.
I found a copy of this at the city library, and I was hoping I would find a text book that could supplement a class I teach in information systems. This book fits the bill except for one problem: the price. I often wonder if publishers just don’t have a handle on supply/demand/price. If they would lower the price on some books, more people might buy them. This book really should be priced around $35.00 and not $85.00. I guess I’ll look at others on XML in that price range. I hope the author and publisher are reading this, because I really was about to consider this as a text book for a class.
Rating: 4 / 5
Designed and written specifically to enable librarians to utilize XML to create and organize documents, fine-tune documents with special characters, using Cascading Style Sheets, and displaying information on a library website, “Using XML: a How-To-Do-It Manual and CD-ROM For Librarians by Kwong Bor NG (Associate Professor, Graduate School of Library and Information Studies, Queens College, CUNY) truly lives up to its promise as a ‘librarian friendly’ instructional manual which deftly combines a clearly written, step-by-step presentation with an accompanying CD-ROM which reproduces every exercise so librarians can compare their work on a chapter-by-chapter basis to insure that the documents they create are displaying properly. Simply stated, “Using XML” is an essential and very strongly recommended instructional reference that is a necessity for adequately training library staff members to make the most out of XML in the areas of technical services, metadata, system libraries, and library website development.
Rating: 5 / 5