[XML4Lib] Re: tei2marcxml

[Kevin Hawkins]

Eric,

You probably know this, but you can't write a generic script to convert 
TEI headers to MARCXML because the TEI header is so flexible and open to 
interpretation in its use.  So you really need something project- or 
collection-specific that takes into account local metadata practices.

That said, I am involved in a revision of the very outdated "TEI Text 
Encoding in Libaries: Guidelines for Best Encoding Practices" ( 
http://www.diglib.org/standards/tei.htm ).  The new version, renamed 
"Best Practices for TEI in Libraries" ( 
http://purl.oclc.org/NET/teiinlibraries ) will include MARC field 
mappings for header elements.  These are currently being drafted, and we 
plan to have these in place by early July.  This info might save you 
some time in writing your own stylesheet, noting of course that the TEI 
encoding in the Best Practices will no doubt differ from your local 
practice.  We hope this document will become an approved TEI 
customization, available on the TEI website along with stylesheets for 
MARCXML-->TEI and TEI-->MARCXML (which someone will need to write), but 
this is all many months away from happening.

More information on our work and timeline is at

http://wiki.tei-c.org/index.php/TEI_in_Libraries:_Guidelines_for_Best_Practices_Working_Group

If you are interested in writing stylesheets for this, we would very 
much welcome your help!

Kevin
Member of the TEI in Libraries: Guidelines for Best Practices Working Group
Co-Convenor of the SIG on Libraries of the TEI Consortium