Hi all

As part of the project I am doing for the FAO at the moment, I have had to look at Bibliographic software and bibliographic standards.

During that process, I was made aware of a some interesting papers that those working on Bibliographic standards for TDWG may be interested in.

The first is about XOBIS which is an XML Schema intermediate between the complexity of MARC and the simplicity of Dublin Core. It may be worth considering. It was recommendd to me by Beth Weil, the librarian at Berkeley.

1. Miller, Dick R. (2004). XOBIS - an Experimental Schema for Unifying Bibliographic and Authority Records. http://elane.stanford.edu/laneauth/XOBIS_CCQ/XOBIS_CCQ.html

2. There is a SourceForge site that you are probably aware of, but it lists most of the Standards and Schemas http://wwwsearch.sourceforge.net/bib/openbib.html

3. Caplin, P. (2003) Metadata fundamentals for all librarians. American Libraries Association

4.Miller, Dick R., and Kevin S. Clarke. 2003. Putting XML to Work in the Library, American Library Association

5. A bibliography recommended by Dick Miller http://medlane.info/bibliography.php

regards

Arthur

Arthur D. Chapman Australian Biodiversity Information Services Toowomba Australia