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 >>> kco...@kcoyle.net http://kcoyle.net >>> ph: 1-510-540-7596 >>> m: 1-510-435-8234 >>> skype: kcoylenet