UNIMARC, CDS/ISIS and conversion of records in the national library of Greece

Abstract

Presents the results of the LIBACT1/GR project concerning the implementation of UNIMARC and CDS/ISIS in the National Library of Greece and the conversion of the existing records of the Library into the UNIMARC format. Outlines the basic features of the CDS /ISIS implementation and describes a solution to the problems of implementing UNIMARC on this piece of software. Describes and evaluates a technique used for the automated UNIMARC formatting of the Library's bibliographic and authority records (from simple ASCII text original files). Original abstract-amended.