Hey Alistair:
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 1:16 PM, Alistair Miles
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> Any tips for how I could turn these data into RDF?
If you want to work specifically with that dataset you could download
the different parts Karen pointed you to, and convert to MARCXML using
an efficient tool like yaz-marcdump [2]. yaz-marcdump is nice it will
convert from MARC-8 to UTF-8.
Once you've got it in MARCXML you could then use a stylesheet like
LC's [2] to convert to DublinCore flavored RDF. This might be kinda
lossy for your RDA work though, so you might want MARCXML->MODS [3],
and then use the MODS->RDF conversion that the Simile folks created
(which Karen also pointed you to) [4].
In fact Simile used that stylesheet on their own MIT Library Catalog
MARC data (Barton) and still seem to have the result online [5]. So
perhaps just using the Barton data is the quickest way to begin
playing with what once was MARC data as RDF? To my knowledge Stefano
Mazzocchi simply created an RDF vocabulary that mirrors the MODS XML
Schema, but I haven't looked at it in a while.
Another thing worth checking out might be Rob Styles work [6] with
other people at Talis at converting MARC with full fidelity to RDF.
Perhaps he has some tools (or data) at his disposal? Rob you are on
here right?
I'd be willing to lend a hand with some of this if necessary, so just
let me know if you think I can help.
//Ed
[1] http://www.indexdata.com/yaz/doc/yaz-marcdump.tkl
[2] http://www.loc.gov/standards/marcxml/xslt/MARC21slim2RDFDC.xsl
[3] http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/MARC21slim2MODS3.xsl
[4] http://simile.mit.edu/wiki/MARC/MODS_RDFizer
[5] http://simile.mit.edu/wiki/Dataset:_Barton
[6] http://events.linkeddata.org/ldow2008/papers/02-styles-ayers-semantic-marc.pdf
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