Hi Esme - thanks for this. Do you have any documentation on which predicates 
you've used and MODS->RDF transformation?

Owen

On 2 Dec 2011, at 16:07, Esme Cowles <escow...@ucsd.edu> wrote:

> Owen-
> 
> Another strategy for capturing MARC data in RDF is to convert it to MODS (we 
> do this using the LoC MARC to MODS stylesheet: 
> http://www.loc.gov/standards/marcxml/xslt/MARC21slim2MODS.xsl).  From there, 
> it's pretty easy to incorporate into RDF.  There are some issues to be aware 
> of, such as how to map the MODS XML names to predicates and how to handle 
> elements that can appear in multiple places in the hierarchy.
> 
> -Esme
> --
> Esme Cowles <escow...@ucsd.edu>
> 
> "Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the
> argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves." -- William Pitt, 1783
> 
> On 11/28/2011, at 8:25 AM, Owen Stephens wrote:
> 
>> It would be great to start collecting transforms together - just a quick 
>> brain dump of some I'm aware of
>> 
>> MARC21 transformations
>> Cambridge University Library - http://data.lib.cam.ac.uk - transformation 
>> made available (in code) from same site
>> Open University - http://data.open.ac.uk - specific transform for materials 
>> related to teaching, code available at 
>> http://code.google.com/p/luceroproject/source/browse/trunk%20luceroproject/OULinkedData/src/uk/ac/open/kmi/lucero/rdfextractor/RDFExtractor.java
>>  (MARC transform is in libraryRDFExtraction method)
>> COPAC - small set of records from the COPAC Union catalogue - data and 
>> transform not yet published
>> Podes Projekt - LinkedAuthors - documentation at 
>> http://bibpode.no/linkedauthors/doc/Pode-LinkedAuthors-Documentation.pdf - 2 
>> stage transformation firstly from MARC to FRBRized version of data, then 
>> from FRBRized data to RDF. These linked from documentation
>> Podes Project - LinkedNonFiction - documentation at 
>> http://bibpode.no/linkednonfiction/doc/Pode-LinkedNonFiction-Documentation.pdf
>>  - MARC data transformed using xslt 
>> https://github.com/pode/LinkedNonFiction/blob/master/marcslim2n3.xsl
>> 
>> British Library British National Bibliography - 
>> http://www.bl.uk/bibliographic/datafree.html - data model documented, but no 
>> code available
>> Libris.se - some notes in various presentations/blogposts (e.g. 
>> http://dc2008.de/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/malmsten.pdf) but can't find 
>> explicit transformation
>> Hungarian National library - 
>> http://thedatahub.org/dataset/hungarian-national-library-catalog and 
>> http://nektar.oszk.hu/wiki/Semantic_web#Implementation - some information on 
>> ontologies used but no code or explicit transformation (not 100% sure this 
>> is from MARC)
>> Talis - implemented in several live catalogues including 
>> http://catalogue.library.manchester.ac.uk/  - no documentation or code afaik 
>> although some notes in 
>> 
>> MAB transformation
>> HBZ - some of the transformation documented at 
>> https://wiki1.hbz-nrw.de/display/SEM/Converting+the+Open+Data+from+the+hbz+to+BIBO,
>>  don't think any code published?
>> 
>> Would be really helpful if more projects published their transformations (or 
>> someone told me where to look!)
>> 
>> Owen
>> 
>> Owen Stephens
>> Owen Stephens Consulting
>> Web: http://www.ostephens.com
>> Email: o...@ostephens.com
>> Telephone: 0121 288 6936
>> 
>> On 26 Nov 2011, at 15:58, Karen Coyle wrote:
>> 
>>> A few of the code4lib talk proposals mention projects that have or will 
>>> transform MARC records into RDF. If any of you have documentation and/or 
>>> examples of this, I would be very interested to see them, even if they are 
>>> "under construction."
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> kc
>>> 
>>> -- 
>>> Karen Coyle
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