Joachim Neubert wrote:

> Has anybody built a conversion from PICA+ to MODS and is willing to
> share the code?

First there is not one PICA+ but different variants like there are 
different MARC variants. Second the most PICA+ to anything conversions 
that I know use the "FCV" conversion language that was developed by PICA 
an is neither documented nor standardized - so you won't be able to do 
something with it unless you run your own PICA system. At GBV we export 
MODS via MARC and the XSLT provided by the LOC, the chain is

GBV-PICA+ --(FCV)--> MARC ---> MARCXML --(XSLT)--> MODS

As you can imagine, the metadata quality does not get better with each 
step like alway when you do conversion between metadata formats. But its 
better than having to write n*n single conversions.

Greetings,
Jakob

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