Re: [CODE4LIB] EPUB and ILS indexing update : Question on CIP Usage for e-books

2012-11-11 Thread Stuart Yeates
But who is deciding the LCC or Dewey Classification code ? Should it be the publisher's initiative ? Is there a way to get those information automatically ? For books published in the US except for those categories listed at http://www.loc.gov/publish/cip/about/ineligible.html , the

Re: [CODE4LIB] EPUB and ILS indexing update : Question on CIP Usage for e-books

2012-11-06 Thread Kevin Hawkins
On 2:59 PM, Henri-Damien LAURENT wrote: But I have some questions about CIP block. http://www.loc.gov/publish/cip/ http://www.loc.gov/publish/cip/faqs/ In my opinion, this block is useful for printed books in order to shelve it correctly, and get a LCCN. Right. More precisely, it provides the

[CODE4LIB] EPUB and ILS indexing update : Question on CIP Usage for e-books

2012-11-05 Thread Henri-Damien LAURENT
Hi I have managed to create marcrecord from epub files fairly easily : a) unzip my_epub.epub content.opf b) xsltproc DC2MARC21slim.xsl content.opf my_epub.marcxml And you get a fairly good MARC21slim bibliorecord. Thanks Library of Congress for your wonderful xslts. Some notes : ** EPUB

Re: [CODE4LIB] EPUB and ILS indexing update : Question on CIP Usage for e-books

2012-11-05 Thread David Fiander
On 12-11-05 10:31, Henri-Damien LAURENT wrote: Hi I have managed to create marcrecord from epub files fairly easily : a) unzip my_epub.epub content.opf b) xsltproc DC2MARC21slim.xsl content.opf my_epub.marcxml And you get a fairly good MARC21slim bibliorecord. Thanks Library of Congress