Re: [CODE4LIB] EPUB and ILS indexing update : Question on CIP Usage for e-books

2012-11-11 Thread Stuart Yeates
But who is deciding the LCC or Dewey Classification code ? Should it be the publisher's initiative ? Is there a way to get those information automatically ? For books published in the US except for those categories listed at http://www.loc.gov/publish/cip/about/ineligible.html , the

Re: [CODE4LIB] EPUB and ILS indexing update : Question on CIP Usage for e-books

2012-11-06 Thread Kevin Hawkins
On 2:59 PM, Henri-Damien LAURENT wrote: But I have some questions about CIP block. http://www.loc.gov/publish/cip/ http://www.loc.gov/publish/cip/faqs/ In my opinion, this block is useful for printed books in order to shelve it correctly, and get a LCCN. Right. More precisely, it provides the

[CODE4LIB] EPUB and ILS indexing update : Question on CIP Usage for e-books

2012-11-05 Thread Henri-Damien LAURENT
Hi I have managed to create marcrecord from epub files fairly easily : a) unzip my_epub.epub content.opf b) xsltproc DC2MARC21slim.xsl content.opf my_epub.marcxml And you get a fairly good MARC21slim bibliorecord. Thanks Library of Congress for your wonderful xslts. Some notes : ** EPUB

Re: [CODE4LIB] EPUB and ILS indexing update : Question on CIP Usage for e-books

2012-11-05 Thread David Fiander
On 12-11-05 10:31, Henri-Damien LAURENT wrote: Hi I have managed to create marcrecord from epub files fairly easily : a) unzip my_epub.epub content.opf b) xsltproc DC2MARC21slim.xsl content.opf my_epub.marcxml And you get a fairly good MARC21slim bibliorecord. Thanks Library of Congress

Re: [CODE4LIB] EPUB and ILS indexing

2012-11-01 Thread Eric Hellman
This is an area where the code4lib community can have a huge impact. Conversely, if the Code4lib community doesn't have a big impact, we're in trouble. I urge everyone to have a look at the OS projects that SourceFabric is involved in. In particular, BookType is a django web app that lets

[CODE4LIB] EPUB and ILS indexing

2012-10-29 Thread Henri-Damien LAURENT
Hi, I am about to write a tool which would help indexing EPUB into ILSes. My first guess is to produce ISO2709 or MARCXML record from EPUB files, but since MARCXML or ISO2709 is not really what I would call the more portable (UNIMARC and MARC21 may both be handled in the same file format), I am

Re: [CODE4LIB] EPUB and ILS indexing

2012-10-29 Thread Jodi Schneider
Sounds great! Have you thought about starting from OPDS? http://opds-spec.org/about/ Might be worth talking to some EPUB folks -- for instance Peter Brantley, or else folks from threepress.org? -Jodi On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 12:19 PM, Henri-Damien LAURENT henridamien.laur...@free.fr wrote:

Re: [CODE4LIB] EPUB and ILS indexing

2012-10-29 Thread Eric Lease Morgan
On Oct 29, 2012, at 8:19 AM, Henri-Damien LAURENT henridamien.laur...@free.fr wrote: I am about to write a tool which would help indexing EPUB into ILSes. My first guess is to produce ISO2709 or MARCXML record from EPUB files, but since MARCXML or ISO2709 is not really what I would call the

Re: [CODE4LIB] EPUB and ILS indexing

2012-10-29 Thread Henri-Damien LAURENT
Le 29/10/2012 14:55, Jodi Schneider a écrit : Sounds great! Have you thought about starting from OPDS? http://opds-spec.org/about/ Thanks for that hint Jodi. Nope, I hadnot tought about using OPDS. It looks really great. But from what I know of ILSes, ATOM feeds are not yet getting indexed

Re: [CODE4LIB] EPUB and ILS indexing

2012-10-29 Thread Henri-Damien LAURENT
Le 29/10/2012 15:07, Eric Lease Morgan a écrit : On Oct 29, 2012, at 8:19 AM, Henri-Damien LAURENT henridamien.laur...@free.fr wrote: I am about to write a tool which would help indexing EPUB into ILSes. My first guess is to produce ISO2709 or MARCXML record from EPUB files, but since MARCXML