Library Cataloging
Semantic MARC, MARC21 and the Semantic Web by Rob Styles, Danny Ayers, and Nadeem Shabir is available as a preprint.
- Marbi Papers For Review
The following papers are available for review by the MARC community:Proposal 2010-01:Defining codes for online and direct access electronic resources in 008/23 and 008/29 (Form of item)Proposal 2010-02: Addition of subfield $5 (Institution to which field...
- Can Bibliographic Data Be Put Directly Onto The Semantic Web?
Martha M. Yee, Can Bibliographic Data Be Put Directly Onto the Semantic Web? (2009). Information Technology and Libraries. 28 (2), pp. 55-80. Postprint available free.This paper is a think piece about the possible future of bibliographic control; provides...
- Marc Tool
yaz-marcdump is a free tool from Index Data to manipulate MARC records. Perhaps it is just the tool you need to convert those MARC21 records encoded in MARC-8 into UTF-8. yaz-marcdump reads MARC records from one or more files. It parses each record and...
- Marc Updates
LC has announced updates for the MARC manuals.Update 6: MARC 21 Format for Authority DataUpdate 6: MARC 21 Format for Bibliographic DataUpdate 6: MARC 21 Format for Classification DataUpdate 6: MARC 21 Format for Community InformationUpdate 6: MARC 21...
- Marcont Ontology
Some interesting work being done by the MarcOnt initiative.With the Semantic Web emerged the Dublin Core Metadata standard for library resource description. Besides the fact that most of the information covered by MARC21 is lost, the full potential of...
Library Cataloging
MARC and RDF
Semantic MARC, MARC21 and the Semantic Web by Rob Styles, Danny Ayers, and Nadeem Shabir is available as a preprint.
The MARC standard for exchanging bibliographic data has been in use for several decades and is used by major libraries worldwide. This paper discusses the possibilities of representing the most prevalent form of MARC, MARC21, as RDF for the Semantic Web, and aims to understand the tradeoffs, if any, resulting from transforming the data. Critically our approach goes beyond a simple transliteration of the MARC21 record syntax to develop rich semantic descriptions of the varied things which may be described using bibliographic records. We present an algorithmic approach for consistently generating URIs from textual data, discuss the algorithmic matching of author names and suggest how RDF generated from MARC records may be linked to other data sources on the Web.
- Marbi Papers For Review
The following papers are available for review by the MARC community:Proposal 2010-01:Defining codes for online and direct access electronic resources in 008/23 and 008/29 (Form of item)Proposal 2010-02: Addition of subfield $5 (Institution to which field...
- Can Bibliographic Data Be Put Directly Onto The Semantic Web?
Martha M. Yee, Can Bibliographic Data Be Put Directly Onto the Semantic Web? (2009). Information Technology and Libraries. 28 (2), pp. 55-80. Postprint available free.This paper is a think piece about the possible future of bibliographic control; provides...
- Marc Tool
yaz-marcdump is a free tool from Index Data to manipulate MARC records. Perhaps it is just the tool you need to convert those MARC21 records encoded in MARC-8 into UTF-8. yaz-marcdump reads MARC records from one or more files. It parses each record and...
- Marc Updates
LC has announced updates for the MARC manuals.Update 6: MARC 21 Format for Authority DataUpdate 6: MARC 21 Format for Bibliographic DataUpdate 6: MARC 21 Format for Classification DataUpdate 6: MARC 21 Format for Community InformationUpdate 6: MARC 21...
- Marcont Ontology
Some interesting work being done by the MarcOnt initiative.With the Semantic Web emerged the Dublin Core Metadata standard for library resource description. Besides the fact that most of the information covered by MARC21 is lost, the full potential of...