Alistair:
There's a mapping from MARC to RDA available from the RDA Constituency
Review site in Appendix D:
http://www.rdaonline.org/constituencyreview/ All text, I'm afraid, for
the moment.
Diane
Ed Summers wrote:
> Hey Alistair:
>
> On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 1:16 PM, Alistair Miles
> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> 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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