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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. >