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Appendix

References#

Besides feedback from the library advisory services and the libraries themselves, the following works informed the development of this format. They are listed as published, in German:

bv-MAB2 Austauschformat
5 September 2001 / Kai Lüttger (Lektorat-BV).
Datenformat Schleswig-Holstein
Edition 2000 / EDV-Anwendergruppe Schleswig-Holstein. — As at February 2000.
ekz-MAB2
Magnetband-/Diskettendienst. — December 1998 with the supplement of June 1999.
MAB2
Maschinelles Austauschformat für Bibliotheken / Die Deutsche Bibliothek. Published in cooperation with the MAB committee on behalf of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. — Leipzig, Frankfurt am Main. ISBN 3-922051-70-7, base work, 1995 (ISSN 0949-5258).
MAB deutsch – englisch
Table / Die Deutsche Bibliothek. — As at 15 December 2004.
MABxml-1
Ein XML-Schema für das MAB2-Format, version 1.2 / Jürgen Kett (Die Deutsche Bibliothek).
Richtlinien zur Einführung der 13-stelligen ISBN
Internationale Standard-Buchnummer Agentur für die Bundesrepublik Deutschland — Frankfurt am Main. ISBN-13: 978-3-88053-108-6, ISBN-10: 3-88053-108-0 — 2004.
3M™ Standard Interchange Protocol
Describes 3M Standard Interchange Protocol Version 2.00 / 3M Library Systems. — Document Revision 2.12, Updated April 11, 2006. Order number 78-8129-2375-9 Rev A. The basis of the circulation interface. The protocol is now maintained by a committee of NISO (external site).

Changes#

From version 2 to 3#

Title specification

  • Fields 030, 050, 076, 425p, 535, 544a, B01, B02, B03, B04, B05 and B06 are dropped, as they are not needed for data exchange within the BVS community. The information that is needed is held in other fields.
  • Fields 310, 333, 340, 341, 342, 343, 344, 345, 346 and 347 are dropped, as they were never used within the BVS community or are not needed.
  • Field 750z is dropped following corresponding changes in BVS.
  • Fields 540a, 541a, 542a, 541z and 542z are replaced by fields 540n (ISN), 540t (binding) and 540z (price).
  • Fields 700, 700s and 710 are no longer repeatable. Multiple entries are separated by "; ".
  • New: fields 060, 061 and 062, following RDA.
  • New: position 17 of the record label names the character set of the file — blank still means CP850, w means Windows-1252, u means UTF-8. Positions 18 to 22 are kept free for later definitions.

Display interface

  • New: the display interface is added as a part of the standard in its own right. It describes how library software drives patron displays — at the desk, at the self-checkout unit and at the entrance and exit. It carries data rather than ready-made sentences, so that the display does the wording and can answer in the patron's language. This part is a draft.

Circulation interface

  • New: the circulation interface is added as a part of the standard in its own right. It describes how self-service devices talk to the library software and is an application profile of the 3M Standard Interchange Protocol 2.00 and settles which of the sixteen command pairs are mandatory, how barcode number, accession number and transponder UID are carried, and what additional information is exchanged in the extension space of the protocol.

From version 1 to 2#

Barcode

  • The plain sequence of digits should now be printed below the barcode.
  • A special barcode type for teaching materials in schools.
  • Encoding in Code 128 is possible.

Title specification

  • Data may now be supplied in Unicode (ISO 10646 or UTF-8) as well as in the industry standard character set CP850 used until now.
  • New: field 079, item cover.

Data carrier specification (catalogue records)

  • The file extension changed from INF to INI.
  • The option of using files in Bibliotheca's proprietary, undisclosed export format was removed.
  • Book covers are no longer supplied as individual files but in a FoxPro database file.
  • Access data is no longer held in dBase III files (NTX) but in FoxPro format (CDX).

Data carrier specification (interlibrary loan / book blocks)

  • The file extension changed from INF to INI.
  • The end marker changed from "SBC: *** EOF ***" to "BAFO: *** EOF ***".
  • Fields 084 (owner, library identifier) and 087 (loan data, date due) may also be given in the INI file for all items.

Character sets#

The two character sets have pages of their own: CP850 and Windows-1252, each with all 256 characters.

This page was translated automatically from the German original. If anything reads oddly or looks wrong, please let us know — the German edition prevails.