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Re: Phht! on screenscaping

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On Sat, 01 Oct 2011 19:22:40 -0700, Roedy Green wrote:

> It would not be that hard to come up with a format of the file and an
> API to fetch it, and even write a sample client and server app. The hard
> part is political, selling it.  Perhaps Google might ask its customers
> to implement it, or the ISBN people.
>
It already exists. Take a look at UNIMARC, a machine-readable way of 
formatting bibliographic data for interchange, which was developed by IFLA 
(The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions). 
To my eyes it looks remarkably similar to the SWIFT financial message 
formats: both uses field ID tags, fields may have subfields and there is 
a field terminator symbol (@ in UNIMARC, newline in SWIFT).

There's an introduction to UNIMARC with a clear example here: 
http://archive.ifla.org/VI/3/p1996-1/unimarc.htm

This type of thing works pretty well: SWIFT message formats are a defacto 
financial message interchange format despite originally being intended 
for use only on the SWIFT network, and years ago I was part of a team 
that used the music cataloging version of UNIMARC as the basis of an 
online searchable music catalogue that formed part of the BBC Radio 3 
music planning and production system.
 

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Phht! on screenscaping Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-09-30 09:04 -0700
  Re: Phht! on screenscaping markspace <-@.> - 2011-09-30 10:10 -0700
  Re: Phht! on screenscaping Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2011-09-30 10:24 -0700
    Re: Phht! on screenscaping markspace <-@.> - 2011-09-30 10:30 -0700
      Re: Phht! on screenscaping Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2011-09-30 10:40 -0700
      Re: Phht! on screenscaping Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-09-30 21:19 -0400
  Re: Phht! on screenscaping Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-09-30 21:21 -0400
  Re: Phht! on screenscaping Arved Sandstrom <asandstrom3minus1@eastlink.ca> - 2011-09-30 22:53 -0300
    Re: Phht! on screenscaping Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-09-30 22:11 -0400
      Re: Phht! on screenscaping Arved Sandstrom <asandstrom3minus1@eastlink.ca> - 2011-10-01 09:09 -0300
        Re: Phht! on screenscaping Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-10-01 15:48 -0400
        Re: Phht! on screenscaping Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-10-01 19:22 -0700
          Re: Phht! on screenscaping Movable Hype <mhype101@snortwad.net> - 2011-10-02 03:40 +0000
          Re: Phht! on screenscaping Arved Sandstrom <asandstrom3minus1@eastlink.ca> - 2011-10-02 10:20 -0300
            Re: Phht! on screenscaping Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2011-10-02 08:43 -0700
              Re: Phht! on screenscaping Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2011-10-02 16:22 -0700
          Re: Phht! on screenscaping Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2011-10-02 12:11 +0000
    Re: Phht! on screenscaping Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-10-01 19:03 -0700

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