Agreed Tomas. I would love to see Koha have the ability to be 'format' agnostic when it comes to the data.
On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 9:14 AM, Tomas Cohen Arazi <[email protected]> wrote: > There are (at least) two options: > > - Make Koha handle more metadata formats (for authority records / > thesaurus) and have the tools extract the needed heading for the > bibliographic records > - Make Koha handle importing SKOS-core packages into its authority > database. > > Those could work IMO. > > 2016-01-29 12:11 GMT-03:00 James Weinheimer <[email protected]>: > > > On 1/27/2016 11:19 PM, Craig Butosi wrote: > > > >> I've been curious for a while now if anyone has successfully > >> bulk-uploaded into Koha (3.20 or newer) one of the free LC Name > authority > >> database files available through the Library of Congress: > >> http://id.loc.gov/download/ > >> > >> I wonder if it's even possible given the file formats in which these > >> files are available (n-triples, rdf/xml, Turtle, etc). It looks like > some > >> sort of conversion would be required before uploading into the Koha > >> authorities module. It would be lovely to bulk upload a Name authority > file > >> direct from LC rather than Z39.50'ing individual authorities. > >> > > > > This would be very positive. One of the problems is that the downloads > > available are not MARC, but are either MADS or SKOS. It seems as if > > converting these records to MARC would lose information, but I am not > sure. > > > > To see what this means, look at the record "United States--History--Civil > > War, 1861-1865--Bibliography" > > http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100437.html. If you select > > RDF/XML (MADS and SKOS) ( > > http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100437.rdf) this is what > > would need to be translated into MARC. > > > > The guidelines for mapping MARC to MADS are at > > http://www.loc.gov/standards/mads/mads-mapping.html, and it says "This > > mapping gives equivalencies between the MARC 21 Authority Format and > MADS, > > but is not intended to be a crosswalk that allows for bi-directional > > conversions without some loss of data. Where there is no equivalent MARC > 21 > > element, this mapping says "no MARC 21 equivalent". Therefore, I assume > > there are some problems. > > > > I don't know if anybody has experience with this, but I don't think the > > problems would be trivial. > > > > James Weinheimer [email protected] > > First Thus http://blog.jweinheimer.net > > First Thus Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/FirstThus > > Personal Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/james.weinheimer.35 > > Google+ https://plus.google.com/u/0/+JamesWeinheimer > > Cooperative Cataloging Rules > > http://sites.google.com/site/opencatalogingrules/ > > Cataloging Matters Podcasts > > http://blog.jweinheimer.net/cataloging-matters-podcasts > > The Library Herald http://libnews.jweinheimer.net/ > > > > [delay +30 days] > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org > > [email protected] > > https://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha > > > > > > -- > Tomás Cohen Arazi > Theke Solutions (http://theke.io) > ✆ +54 9351 3513384 > GPG: B2F3C15F > _______________________________________________ > Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org > [email protected] > https://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha > -- Joy Nelson Director of Migrations ByWater Solutions <http://bywatersolutions.com> Support and Consulting for Open Source Software Office: Fort Worth, TX Phone/Fax (888)900-8944 What is Koha? <http://bywatersolutions.com/what-is-koha/> _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org [email protected] https://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
