Alistair Miles
Sun, 08 Mar 2009 17:55:48 -0700
Dear all, I've been working on a conversion of the loc marc data from scriblio to rdf using the rda and frbr schemas, and have got as far as I can with the effort I can spare at the moment. I set up a google code project to manage the work at:
[1] http://code4rda.googlecode.com and have an alpha release of some of the loc data, described further at: [2] http://code.google.com/p/code4rda/wiki/MilestoneOne This is still well short of the initial scope proposed at [2] for a first milestone, based on the most prevalent features in the loc dataset, but will nevertheless hopefully serve as an initial proof of principle, and a base from which others can build. I've added diane hillman and ed summers as project owners to [1], I leave it to them to decide best how to take this work forward. Unfortunately I'm going to be rather busy for the next couple of months, and may not have much time to follow up on this work. However if anyone finds any serious issues in the loc data then do let me know, I'll do what I can to fix them. Best wishes, Alistair -- 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