BookMARC | Serviços de Informação Bibliográfica

New member of the Sirius platform

GEMINI, bibliographic information quality control system

GEMINI, a tool to help cataloguing agencies to enforce higher quality standards for their bibliographic information, is the latest addition to the Sirius platform.
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Advances in XML technology for bibliographic data

BookMARC supports TVS Model for XML usage

The theory behind this model is explained in a paper presented to the next IFLA conference in Glasgow, August 2002 (see http://www.ifla.org/IV/ifla68/prog02.htm):

XML and bibliographic data: the TVS (Transport, Validation and Services) model, JOAQUIM DE CARVALHO (BookMARC/University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal) and MARIA INÊS CORDEIRO (Art Library, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal) available at http://www.ifla.org/IV/ifla68/papers/075-095e.pdf.

The key point in this approach is that by specifying requirements for XML usage at these three levels, in an articulated but distinct way, a much needed clarification about the role of XML in bibliographic systems can be achieved.

For examples and sample code related to web services see:
http://www.bookmarc.pt/tvs/

First of the BookMARC Conferences 2002

The digital library: materialization and utopia

The digital library: materialization and utopia, a conference, by Maria Manuel Marques Borges (University of Coimbra), was held at the Pedro Nunes Institute (IPN) Auditorium, Coimbra, July - 8th, presented by BookMARC as the first event of the BookMARC Conferences 2002 cycle.
As part of this event GEMINI - BookMARC's bibliographic information control system - was introduced to the professional public.
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Co-operation with EBSCO enables linking between the MEDLINE database and the APDIS Serials List Online. A development by BookMARC

EBSCO implements active linking of MEDLINE searches with BookMARC perShare product.

EBSCO and BookMARC started a joint effort in order to enable MEDLINE, the world's most important database in health sciences, to interact with the serials union catalogue of APDIS (the Portuguese association for information and documentation in the health domain).
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Sirius PerShare

BookMARC launches new online service to facilitate the sharing of information and documents among Portuguese health libraries

PerShare, an application developed by BookMARC as part of the Sirius platform, was selected by APDIS to support the new Internet-based service for locating and sharing serials collections among Portuguese health libraries.
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National Library and BookMARC signed up a collaboration agreement

BookMARC technology to support PORBASE services

The National Library and BookMARC formalized a collaboration agreement with the objective of joining efforts to expand and diversify the services provided in the context of PORBASE, the Portuguese National Bibliographic Database, either at the professional or public levels. According to this agreement, PORBASE will advance its services by using the technologies and tools produced by BookMARC.
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Partnership agreement with Microsoft

BookMARC integrates .NET development platform

BookMARC and Microsoft Portugal signed a partnership agreement concerning the use of the .NET architecture in the development of bibliographic applications.
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About BookMARC

BookMARC is a development company entirely devoted to software products and services related to bibliographic information. Its central product is the Sirius Bibliographic Server, a leading application for producing library catalogues on the Web. Sirius Bibliographic Server is currently being used by many libraries and other organizations looking for innovative ways to release their information assets on the WWW. Among them is the National Library of Portugal, where Sirius provides the Web interface for the online union catalogue of the Portuguese libraries, PORBASE.

Ifla, Glasgow 2002