Glossary Definitions

Glossary

bibliographic database

A database of records that represent a work, containing all the data necessary to identify and catalog it in a specific bibliographic format

MARC

MAchine-Readable Cataloging (MARC), an international standard digital format for describing bibliographic items, developed at the Library of Congress

MESH

Medical Subject Headings

RDF

Resource Description Framework

standard number

The unique identification number (example: the ISBN or ISSN) assigned to an edition at the time of first publication

XMI

XML Metadata Interchange