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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 > -- Corey A Harper Metadata Services Librarian New York University Libraries 20 Cooper Square, 3rd Floor New York, NY 10003-7112 212.998.2479 [log in to unmask]