[XML4Lib] mods: the new marc?

[Andrew Ashton]

Simile's RDFizer utilities are pretty great, if only because they allow
you to control the amount of RDF-ness in your output.  You can convert
from MARCXML to MODS with or without wrapping the output in RDF, and
their conversion largely works better than the LOC toolkit, in my
experience.  

As for MODS, it seems like a decent stopgap, and it is certainly easy to
get at meaningful metadata by drilling into MODS record than in any
flavor of MARC...but long term I'd look at RDF to accommodate more of
the metadata types that are coming down the road. just my $.02.


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Andrew Ashton
Systems Librarian
Scribner Library, Skidmore College
(518)580-5505

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[mailto:xml4lib-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Eric Lease Morgan
Sent: Monday, December 17, 2007 10:46 AM
To: xml4lib
Subject: Re: [XML4Lib] mods: the new marc?


On Dec 17, 2007, at 10:16 AM, Deridder, Jody L wrote:

> As you know, MODS was developed from MARC but still has many of the 
> same drawbacks.  I'm wondering if the best solution at present isn't 
> some combination scheme in RDF format.



Yes, I understand this, and consequently I think some flavor(s) of RDF
might be the "best" direction to take. I discovered the following
"RDFizers" last night after my posting. They allow you to convert things
like email, MARC, MODS, OAI-PMH, and to some extent JPEG into RDF/XML.
There are many others as well. Pretty cool:

   http://simile.mit.edu/wiki/RDFizers

The resulting RDF files are not the same from data format to data
format, but it is a beginning.

I haven't looked at ORE, yet.

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Eric Lease Morgan
University Libraries of Notre Dame

(574) 631-8604

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