Eric,

Have you had a look at Ed Chamberlain's work on COMET:
https://github.com/edchamberlain/COMET

It's been a while since I've run this, but if I remember correctly, it was
fairly "easy-to-use".

Also, though much older, I seem to remember the Simile MARC "RDFizer" being
a pretty straightforward one to run:
http://simile.mit.edu/wiki/MARC/MODS_RDFizer

MODS aficionados will point to some problems with some of it's choices for
representing that data, but still a good starting point (IMO).

Hope that helps,
-Corey



On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 9:59 PM, Eric Lease Morgan <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> I have to eat some crow, and I hope somebody here can give me some advice
> for transforming MARC to RDF.
>
> I am in the midst of writing a book describing the benefits of linked data
> for archives. Archival metadata usually comes in two flavors: EAD and MARC.
> I found a nifty XSL stylesheet from the Archives Hub (that’s in the United
> Kingdom) transforming EAD to RDF/XML. [1] With a bit of customization I
> think it could be used quite well for just about anybody with EAD files. I
> have retained a resulting RDF/XML file online. [2]
>
> Converting MARC to RDF has been more problematic. There are various tools
> enabling me to convert my original MARC into MARCXML and/or MODS. After
> that I can reportably use a few tools to convert to RDF:
>
>   * MARC21slim2RDFDC.xsl [3] - functions, but even for
>     my tastes the resulting RDF is too vanilla. [4]
>
>   * modsrdf.xsl [5] - optimal, but when I use my
>     transformation engine (Saxon), I do not get XML
>     but rather plain text
>
>   * BIBFRAME Tools [6] - sports nice ontologies, but
>     the online tools won’t scale for large operations
>
> In short, I have discovered nothing that is “easy-to-use”. Can you provide
> me with any other links allowing me to convert MARC to serialized RDF?
>
> [1] ead2rdf.xsl - http://data.archiveshub.ac.uk/xslt/ead2rdf.xsl
> [2] transformed EAD file - http://infomotions.com/tmp/una-ano.rdf
> [3] MARC21slim2RDFDC.xsl -
> http://www.loc.gov/standards/marcxml/xslt/MARC21slim2RDFDC.xsl
> [4] vanilla RDF - http://infomotions.com/tmp/pamphlets.rdf
> [5] modsrdf.xsl -
> http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/modsrdf/xsl-files/modsrdf.xsl
> [6] BIBFRAME Tools - http://bibframe.org/tools/transform/start
>
> —
> Eric Lease Morgan
>



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