Welcome to the XOBIS website

There are many XML schemas available for modeling MARC data. Most take a literal approach, naming elements and attributes after their corresponding MARC fields, subfields, and indicators. Others represent only a small subset of the data libraries use to describe resources. XOBIS attempts to walk the middle path: describe the full set of library information, but reorganize this information into a structure that empowers the use of library data as just one more information resource available in the digital domain.

Stay tuned... content coming soon

This site is basically just a placeholder until the main body of content can be moved to this server. In the meantime, you may want to download the schema in RELAX NG, view an HTML representation of the schema, look at some sample records, or download the general overview (as a PDF). Thank you for your interest in XOBIS. We should have the real content for this site moved over soon.