Alistair Miles
Thu, 19 Feb 2009 06:56:48 -0800
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 06:31:05AM -0800, Karen Coyle wrote: > i haven't done it yet, but i was planning to hook rda to marc in a > database i keep of marc fields. that would allow me to output an > rda-to-marc. the documents unfortunately take shortcuts, like: > > 300 > $a > $b > > so i want to turn this into a list of tags and subfields, which is > what's in my db > > 300/a > 300/b > > if that would be useful for you, it'll motivate me.
Yes, definitely. I had initially planned to work from MODS XML to RDA, I'll probably still implement an XSLT transform that way, but it helps a lot to know how the MARC fields get mapped across. Cheers, Alistair > > kc > > > Alistair Miles wrote: >> Hi Karen, >> >> On Tue, Feb 03, 2009 at 11:11:47AM -0800, Karen Coyle wrote: >> >>> I've begun what may be a very slow process to create an actionable >>> map from RDA to MARC. Although Appendix D has the mapping between >>> them as text, the mapping isn't rigorous. In addition, it becomes >>> obvious that RDA and MARC function at different levels of >>> granularity, such as: >>> >>> $a Personal name >>> >>> >>> >>> *9.2.2 Preferred Name for the Person* >>> >>> $b Numeration >>> >>> >>> >>> *9.2.2 Preferred Name for the Person* >>> >>> >>> Some of the elements that we might need are found in FRAD, not RDA. >>> >>> I may give up on this, but it seems to be the only way to know >>> whether we can create a record from RDA that is interoperable with >>> legacy data. I'm not looking to match MARC 1-to-1, but it will be >>> good to know what the differences are. >>> >> >> Just curious, what do you mean by "actionable map"? Can I see what >> you've done so far? >> >> Cheers, >> >> Alistair >> >> >>> If anyone has gone further along in this exercise, I'd like to hear >>> from you. >>> kc >>> >>> -- >>> ----------------------------------- >>> Karen Coyle / Digital Library Consultant >>> kco...@kcoyle.net http://www.kcoyle.net >>> ph.: 510-540-7596 skype: kcoylenet >>> fx.: 510-848-3913 >>> mo.: 510-435-8234 >>> ------------------------------------ >>> >> >> > > -- > ----------------------------------- > Karen Coyle / Digital Library Consultant > kco...@kcoyle.net http://www.kcoyle.net > ph.: 510-540-7596 skype: kcoylenet > fx.: 510-848-3913 > mo.: 510-435-8234 > ------------------------------------ -- Alistair Miles Senior Computing Officer Image Bioinformatics Research Group Department of Zoology The Tinbergen Building University of Oxford South Parks Road Oxford OX1 3PS United Kingdom Web: http://purl.org/net/aliman Email: alistair.mi...@zoo.ox.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0)1865 281993