Missingham, R. (2004). Reengineering a national resource discovery service: MODS down under. D-Lib Magazine, 10(9).
I found this article very interesting. The idea of a national bibliographic database, such as the one being constructed in Australia, seems to be an excellent and logical idea. The service provided by Kinetica, allowing any Australian library to contribute to the national online catalog, seems to be a logical progression in digital library resources.
The goals of digitally archiving publications and resource discovery through Kinetica are also important goals discussed in the article. It makes sense, while creating a catalog to provide accessibility to records from many libraries, to also preserve items digitally.
I also found the discussion of the rationalization for MODS as an intermediary for Dublin Core records and MARC records to be interesting. The reasoning, I thought, made complete sense. Dublin Core to MODS is a rather basic conversion. MODS is specifically designed to be compatible with MARC. Therefore, as stated in the article, it is the clear choice for an intermediary.
I do have one question, that is not directly related to the discussions in this article. How much of the world uses Library of Congress standards and formats such as MARC and AACR2? I notices several references to the Library of Congress in this article, which surprised me, since it was dealing with an Australian project.
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