Brian K Geiger, PhD, MLISDirectorCenter for Bibliographical Studies and ResearchUniversity of California, Riverside

Carl Stahmer, PhDAssociate Research ScientistEarly Modern Center, English Broadside Ballad ArchiveUniversity of California, Santa Barbara

X = Dublin Core, EAD, VRA, etc.

Flexibility: MARC Today, Dublin Core Tomorrow!

Extensibility: Where is the Entity for ….!

Ascribe to a particular view of the underlying, ontological reality of the object being described .

http://www.extensiblecatalog.org/

Randy Cook Director of Community DevelopmentUniversity of Rochesterrcook@library.rochester.edu

Imports MARC directly from Library Information System or from file.

Plugin architecture allows users to build custom, java transformation scripts to match your output data model.

Exports records in user defined XML format and/or pushes back to ILS.