Felix, a question that isn't answered in the MAB/MARC pdf document: How do we identify "books" (e.g. textual monographs)?
I was thinking that the 'am' in 050 051 might mean the same as the MARC leader: <rdfmab:field/050> "a|||||||||||||" . <rdfmab:field/051> "m|||||||" . Is that it? Thanks, kc Quoting Felix Ostrowski <[email protected]>: > 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 > -- Karen Coyle [email protected] http://kcoyle.net ph: 1-510-540-7596 m: 1-510-435-8234 skype: kcoylenet _______________________________________________ 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]
