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Kevin S. Clarke <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
License: gpl
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Package: Medlane
System name: medlane
This package does NOT want to apply for inclusion in the GNU project

My project is an attempt to create a tool set for libraries interested in 
moving their records from the MARC format to XML.  Currently libraries are 
dependent on proprietary software because we use a format that is only used by 
us.  Since not many libraries can afford programmers (we are one of the 
exceptions) they have to take what is sold to them by these vendors.  Moving to 
a platform/system independent format like XML will allow us to use a variety of 
tools and better integrate library information in with the rest of the Web 
resources.  We have previously released XMLMARC which is software to convert 
MARC records into XML based on a flexible mapping language (also expressed in 
XML).  We are working on creating library specific resources (cataloging 
module, circ module, etc.) from standard freely available tools (free software 
databases, etc.)... we are adding the library specific features.

The page that has XMLMARC is http://xmlmarc.stanford.edu but the software you 
will download from there is not GPL compliant (despite the fact that we 
released it under the GPL... we\'ve learned a little more about the licensing 
requirements since then).  We have a rewritten version that is GPL compliant 
but it is not on the web yet.  We would like to put it into a \"Medlane\" 
project here... in addition to an editor for bibliographic records and one for 
the maps we use, we have preliminary work on the database.  The rest will 
come...