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> * 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 >