Hi Karen, > I will need to figure out a translation from MAB fields/subfields to the OL > fields. A translation table from MAB to MARC (or MARC to MAB) would work, or > a description of the MAB data elements (preferably in English, otherwise I > hope I can rely on you where my dictionary fails me).
I'd be glad to help mapping MAB to OL fields, or actually converting the RDF/2709 data to something that is compatible with OL. There is a translation table from MAB to MARC available from the German National Library at [1], but in some cases it does not precisely map all fields, because "our data passes through an interface that is based on MARC21 before it is published. Some fields are renamed in this process" ([2]). I'm pretty new to OL, especially from a technological point of view. You mention the "OL fields". What exactly are these? Is there some sort of native format? The only documentation I have found so far is [3], where it says to "use an available bibliographic standard. Examples of such standards are MARC21, UniMARC & ONIX". Can RDF-serialization also be imported (presuming that subject and author ids are resolved)? Or is it better to dig right into writing a Python processor for RDF/2709? Cheers, Felix [1] http://www.d-nb.de/standardisierung/pdf/mab-englisch.pdf [2] http://wiki1.hbz-nrw.de/display/SEM/Converting+the+Open+Data+from+the+hbz+to+BIBO [3] http://openlibrary.org/data _______________________________________________ Ol-tech mailing list [email protected] http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-tech To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to [email protected]
