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<b><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">*Please
excuse any cross-postings*</span></b><br></span></b></p><p style="background:rgb(254,254,254);vertical-align:baseline;margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(73,73,73)">A cataloging and metadata
handbook from ALCTS for coding with XML</span></b><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span></span></span></p>
<p style="background:rgb(254,254,254);vertical-align:baseline;margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><img width="172" height="258" align="left" hspace="10" style="height:2.687in;width:1.791in" class="m_9038928059345921849gmail-CToWUd"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(73,73,73)">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 “<a href="https://www.alastore.ala.org/content/coding-xml-efficiencies-cataloging-and-metadata-practical-applications-xsd-xslt-and-xquery" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(51,122,183);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">Coding with XML for
Efficiencies in Cataloging and Metadata: Practical Applications of XSD, XSLT,
and XQuery</span></a>,” published by ALA Editions, comes in. Librarians working
in their code editors will want this resource, with its 58 sample coding
examples, at their side. Backed by the authority of the Association for Library
Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS) and editors Timothy W. Cole,
Myung-Ja (MJ) K. Han, and Christine Schwartz, it covers:</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span></span></span></p>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(73,73,73)">essential background information, with a quick review of XML
basics;</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(73,73,73)"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 1in;background:rgb(254,254,254);vertical-align:baseline;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol;color:rgb(73,73,73)"><span>·<span style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(73,73,73)">transforming XML metadata in HTML; </span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(73,73,73)"><span></span></span></p>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(73,73,73)">schema languages and workflows for XML validation; </span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(73,73,73)"><span></span></span></p>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(73,73,73)">an introduction to XPath and XSLT; </span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(73,73,73)"><span></span></span></p>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(73,73,73)">cataloging workflows using XSLT;</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(73,73,73)"><span></span></span></p>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(73,73,73)">the basics of XQuery, including use cases and XQuery expressions
and functions; and </span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(73,73,73)"><span></span></span></p>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(73,73,73)">working with strings and sequences, including regular
expressions.</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(73,73,73)"><span></span></span></p>
<p style="background:rgb(254,254,254);vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:border-box;margin:1rem 0rem;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;text-align:start;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;word-spacing:0px;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(73,73,73)"> </span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span></span></span></p>
<p style="background:rgb(254,254,254);vertical-align:baseline;margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(73,73,73)">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” and “Using the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata
Harvesting” and has published widely on metadata, linked open data, and the use
of XML in libraries. A past co-chair of the W3C Web Annotation Working Group,
he was awarded the 2017 LITA/OCLC Kilgour Award. Han is a metadata librarian
and associate professor of library administration at the University of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign. She has published papers <em><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">in Library Trends</span></em>, <em><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">Library Resources and Technical Services</span></em>, and
the <em><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">Journal of Library Metadata</span></em>.
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, and contributed an essay to the
book “Conversations with Catalogers in the 21st Century.” She served on the
Code4Lib Journal Editorial Committee in 2008–2009.</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span></span></span></p>
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