Re: MARCXML to Topic Maps? MODS to Topic Maps?

Hello Aki, Alexander and topic mappers:

I was looking too for the same one year ago. Finally I began to write a 
style sheet in XSLT (unfinished by now) to transform MODS to Topic maps 
(with innestimable help, of course). I do it to XTM 1.0 (need to merge 
with others outputs).
If you want to see it (if useful) I can send it to you.

Best regards,


Alexander Johannesen <[email protected]> dijo:

> Hi,
>
> Aki Kivela <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Therefore I am looking for a mapping from MARCXML [2] to Topic Maps and/or
>> MODS [3] to Topic Maps. I know the issue has been touched in many research
>> papers, for example [4], but still couldn't find a working implementation
>> for these mappings. Do you know any?
>
> I wish I could be more supportive and helpful, but all attempts to
> model up MARC (specifically MARC21, not sure if the Finnish MARC is
> different) as far as I know have failed (to various degrees). Crikey,
> the library world itself are having huge problems just making the
> transition from AACR2-based MARC21 to FRBR (and RDA) based normalized
> data sets. You have to realize that the MARC model is highly
> unnormalized, and relies on huge amounts of prose as field data, and
> have *no* notion of identity management. Some data are ok and can be
> used, of course, but lots of stuff is worthless unless put in a larger
> context.
>
> You could always check with OCLC (they have some converting web
> services), and perhaps CODE4LIB have code that does "something" (I
> remember at least a better MARC --> MODS converter in Python or
> Ruby?). Was it MarcTools? I looked briefly at LibraryThing services,
> too, but they are too fluffy for these purposes.
>
> Now, after all that, I did do a MARC directly to Topic Maps / XTM 1.0
> converter back in the days, but I'm sure where it is, and I remember
> its state as being somewhat, um, flimsy (for the before mentioned
> reasons). I've got a ton of MARC data lying around that I meant to
> release as linked data, so I've got an interest in this, too. I'll
> look into it in more detail over the next few days and report, if
> anything.
>
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Alex
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