Oops, just sent this Karen by mistake...
-Ross.
On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 12:52 PM, Ross Singer <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 12:37 PM, Karen Coyle <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> dcterms so so terribly lossy that it would be a shame to reduce MARC to it.
>> What we need, ASAP, is a triple form of MARC (and I know some folks have
>> experimented with this...) and a translate from MARC to the RDA elements
>> that have been registered in RDF. However, I hear that JSC is going to be
>> adding more detail to the RDA elements so that could mean changes coming
>> down the pike.
>>
> There's marcont: http://www.marcont.org/, but a mapping would need to
> be created to get from there to anything anybody actually uses.
>
>> I am interested in working on "MARC as triples", which I see as a
>> transformation format. I have a database of MARC elements that might be a
>> crude basis for this. Again, some logic will be needed to get the real
>> meaning out of the MARC fields and subfields. I would appreciate hearing
>> from anyone who has done some or all of this.
>>
>
> I, too, would be interested (and, as a side note, the W3C is just now
> kicking off an incubator group for linked library data, which,
> hopefully, will present some guidance here) and have tried to do
> something in this capacity:
>
> http://code.google.com/p/kochief/wiki/LochiefDataModel
> http://code.google.com/p/kochief/wiki/BookModel
>
> which was the basis for the LinkedLCCN data model:
>
> http://github.com/rsinger/LinkedLCCN
>
> which is more of a moving target. I'll try to write up what it's
> actually doing and put it in the project wiki.
>
> -Ross.
>
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