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Please join us for the LITA/ALCTS MARC Formats Transition Interest Group at
the 2013 ALA Midwinter Meeting in Seattle, Washington.
Time: Saturday, January 26th from 3pm to 4pm
Place: Renaissance Seattle Hotel, Compass South room
The theme of the session is “*Transforming MARC: Repurposing, Reusing and
Reimagining Data from MARC Records*".
Our speakers will be Roy Tennant of OCLC Research, Diane Hillmann of
Metadata Management Associates, and Sally McCallum of the Library of
Congress. Descriptions of their presentations follow:
Roy Tennant - OCLC Research
*MARC and the Trouble With Online*
Due to some basic ambiguities in MARC, it is presently very difficult to
tell if a URL in an 856 field will lead the user to the full item online,
let alone whether it is openly available. This presentation will reveal
some work by OCLC Research to tackle this problem, and lead the way forward
to an unambiguous declaration regarding URLs, whether encoded in MARC or
some other metadata scheme.
Diane I. Hillmann - Metadata Management Associates
*A Lossless Method to Map MARC Data*
Summary: Many of those who seek to map or crosswalk data from MARC to other
schemas believe that the elderly MARCXML is the only option. However,
another option exists, in a more modern package: http://marc21rdf.info.
These 'level zero' elements allow MARC21 data to be represented without
loss in RDF; subsequently, semantic mappings can be used to interoperate
the data with other linked data based on Dublin Core, ISBD, RDA, etc. This
resource is open to use by anyone, and will be available in the mapping
service being built by the Open Metadata Registry (
http://metadataregistry.org). Diane Hillmann, one of the principals in the
consulting firm Metadata Management Associates, will describe how the
service will work, what its products will be, and respond to any feedback
or ideas from the audience.
Sally McCallum - Library of Congress
*Bibliographic Format Initiative (BFI) - Data from MARC*
The high level model for the BFI has been published and there are 7 Early
Experimenters and probably more institutions investigating how it might
work. LC's NDMSO has been working on an experimental pipeline for
converting its MARC records into a new framework where they might sit
better with RDA data. McCallum will describe choices LC has made for
transformation of data and show what they are looking like from the BFI
side.
-- Stacie Traill (University of Minnesota) and Sarah Weeks(St. Olaf
College), interest group co-chairs
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