Hi Eric,

you seem to have missed the Catmandu tutorial at SWIB13. Luckily there
is a basic tutorial and a demo online: http://librecat.org/

The demo happens to be about transforming MARC to RDF using the
Catmandu Perl framework. It gives you full flexibility by separating
the importer from the exporter and providing a domain specific
language for “fixing” the data in between. Catmandu also has easy
to use wrappers for popular search engines and databases (both SQL and
NoSQL), making it a complete ETL (extract, transform, load) toolkit.

Disclosure: I am a Catmandu contributor. It's free and open source
software.

Cheers,
Christian


On Wed, Dec 04, 2013 at 09:59:46PM -0500, Eric Lease Morgan wrote:
> 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

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