Coding with XML for Efficiencies in Cataloging and Metadata: Practical Applications of XSD, XSLT, and XQuery (Alcts Monograph)

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Product Description Even experienced catalogers and copy catalogers 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; cataloging workflows using XSLT; the basics of XQuery, including use cases and XQuery expressions and functions; and working with strings and sequences, including regular expressions. This handbook will help teach cataloguers of all levels of experience how to code for efficiencies. Review "Recommended for the serious, dedicated student of XML and its related technologies." --Technicalities "A pragmatic, clear and succinct factual guide ... If you re looking for a book which demonstrates the power of XML and its application in library work in detail, dive in!" --Catalogue & Index "A number of appendixes provide numerous samples and examples of coding along with software configurations. A good book to build efficiencies using metadata in libraries." --American Reference Books Annual About the Author Timothy W. Cole is mathematics librarian and coordinator for library applications in the iSchool's Center for Informatics Research in Science and Scholarship at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the coauthor of XML for Catalogers and Metadata Librarians (2013) and Using the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (2007) and has published widely on metadata, linked open data, and the use of XML in libraries. Cole is a past cochair of the W3C Web Annotation Working Group. A member of the University of Illinois faculty since 1989, Cole has held prior posts in the Library Systems Office and Engineering Library. He is the winner of the 2017 LITA/OCLC Kilgour Award. Myung-Ja ("MJ") Han is a metadata librarian and associate professor of library administration at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her main responsibilities consist of developing, evaluating, and enhancing cataloging and metadata workflows. Her research interests include the interoperability of metadata, issues on bibliographic control in the digital library environment, and the semantic web and linked data. She has published papers in Library Trends, Library Resources and Technical Services, and the Journal of Library Metadata on metadata quality and bibliographic control. Christine Schwartz is metadata librarian and XML database administrator at the Princeton Theological Seminary. She has researched and written about cataloging trends and issues on her blog, Cataloging Futures. She contributed an essay, "Changing Mind-set, Changing Skill Set: Transitioning from Cataloger to Metadata Librarian," to the book Conversations with Catalogers in the 21st Century (2010). Schwartz served on the Code4Lib Journal Editorial Committee in 2008 2009. She has worked with the XQuery programming language for over nine years, specifically working with library metadata programmatically.