Title: A new system for integrating information from libraries' catalogues to MODS format

Authors: Ana Ma Fermoso, Roberto Berjon, Encarnacion Beato, Montserrat Mateos, Miguel Angel Sanchez, Maribel Manzano, Ma Jose Gil

Addresses: Computer Science Faculty, Pontifical University, Salamanca, Spain. ' Computer Science Faculty, Pontifical University, Salamanca, Spain. ' Computer Science Faculty, Pontifical University, Salamanca, Spain. ' Computer Science Faculty, Pontifical University, Salamanca, Spain. ' Computer Science Faculty, Pontifical University, Salamanca, Spain. ' Computer Science Faculty, Pontifical University, Salamanca, Spain. ' Department of Computer Science, University of Deusto, Bilbao, Spain

Abstract: In this paper, we present the integration of information from library catalogues to the bibliographical format MODS (Metadata Object Description Schema). Hereby the resources of different bibliographical catalogues can be consulted obtaining the results in the same common format as MODS. To achieve our aim we use the XDS system, a software tool that solves the integration of heterogeneous data using XML as integration format. XDS allows integrating data from different relational and XML sources obtaining the results in the XML format specified by user. In this case the information sources store library catalogues and the output format is MODS.

Keywords: XML; MODS; library catalogues; information integration; heterogeneous information; relational databases; XML databases; bibliographical format; metadata object description.

DOI: 10.1504/IJMSO.2007.017613

International Journal of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies, 2007 Vol.2 No.3, pp.201 - 210

Published online: 20 Mar 2008 *

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