>    * BIBFRAME Tools [6] - sports nice ontologies, but
 >      the online tools won’t scale for large operations
-- The code running the transformation at [6] is available here:

https://github.com/lcnetdev/marc2bibframe

We've run several million records through it at one time.  As with 
everything, the data needs to be properly prepared and we have a script 
that processes those millions in smaller (but still sizeable) batches.

Yours,
Kevin


On 12/04/2013 09:59 PM, Eric Lease Morgan 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
>