Library of Congress -- National Digital Library Program
Dance Instruction Items with MARC Digital Object Information
and Related Sample Handle Resolutions
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Explanatory Notes (These notes apply to all items)
About this document: The LC items included in this
document are part of An American Ballroom Companion: Dance Instruction
Manuals, ca. 1600-1920, a digital compilation that will be mounted on the
LC World Wide Web site in the near future. Several fields have been added
to the MARC bibliographic record for each of these items, including the 856 to
indicate the location and persistent identifier (handle) of the item's digital
"incarnation." This document shows what each item's MARC record
looks like and illustrates what the persistent identifier might
resolve to in LC's Handle Service.
Metaobjects: The metaobject contains information about
digital content derived from an LC collection item. However
the metaobject itself does not hold actual digital content. Such
content is carried in subordinate digital objects referred to as
digital content objects. For the foreseeable future, the
metaobject handle will resolve to a CGI bin script that will
return the standard display presented when a user clicks on an item's
entry in an American Memory search result list.
Common Gateway Interface (CGI) BIN Script:
As indicated above, metaobject handles will initially resolve to a CGI bin script.
This script will present an item as it would be displayed following
selection from an American Memory search result list.
Once the LC digital repository and structural metadata for
LC digital objects have been implemented, however, this will change.
Metaobject handles will then resolve either to a display informing
the user of the specific types of content that
are associated with the metaobject or to metadata that
will allow the requesting browser to format its own presentation.
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| Created: 3/20/98
Revised: 1/6/99 |
| Information Technology Services, Library of Congress |
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