Yes. It seems as if this would be a tremendous step toward the future and would help everybody. Jim On 1/29/2016 4:21 PM, Joy Nelson wrote:
Agreed Tomas. I would love to see Koha have the ability to be 'format' agnostic when it comes to the data.
On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 9:14 AM, Tomas Cohen Arazi <tomascohen@gmail.com <mailto:tomascohen@gmail.com>> wrote:
There are (at least) two options:
- Make Koha handle more metadata formats (for authority records / thesaurus) and have the tools extract the needed heading for the bibliographic records - Make Koha handle importing SKOS-core packages into its authority database.
Those could work IMO.
2016-01-29 12:11 GMT-03:00 James Weinheimer <weinheimer.jim.l@gmail.com <mailto:weinheimer.jim.l@gmail.com>>:
> On 1/27/2016 11:19 PM, Craig Butosi wrote: > >> I've been curious for a while now if anyone has successfully >> bulk-uploaded into Koha (3.20 or newer) one of the free LC Name authority >> database files available through the Library of Congress: >> http://id.loc.gov/download/ >> >> I wonder if it's even possible given the file formats in which these >> files are available (n-triples, rdf/xml, Turtle, etc). It looks like some >> sort of conversion would be required before uploading into the Koha >> authorities module. It would be lovely to bulk upload a Name authority file >> direct from LC rather than Z39.50'ing individual authorities. >> > > This would be very positive. One of the problems is that the downloads > available are not MARC, but are either MADS or SKOS. It seems as if > converting these records to MARC would lose information, but I am not sure. > > To see what this means, look at the record "United States--History--Civil > War, 1861-1865--Bibliography" > http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100437.html. If you select > RDF/XML (MADS and SKOS) ( > http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100437.rdf) this is what > would need to be translated into MARC. > > The guidelines for mapping MARC to MADS are at > http://www.loc.gov/standards/mads/mads-mapping.html, and it says "This > mapping gives equivalencies between the MARC 21 Authority Format and MADS, > but is not intended to be a crosswalk that allows for bi-directional > conversions without some loss of data. Where there is no equivalent MARC 21 > element, this mapping says "no MARC 21 equivalent". Therefore, I assume > there are some problems. > > I don't know if anybody has experience with this, but I don't think the > problems would be trivial. > > James Weinheimer weinheimer.jim.l@gmail.com <mailto:weinheimer.jim.l@gmail.com> > First Thus http://blog.jweinheimer.net > First Thus Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/FirstThus > Personal Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/james.weinheimer.35 > Google+ https://plus.google.com/u/0/+JamesWeinheimer > Cooperative Cataloging Rules > http://sites.google.com/site/opencatalogingrules/ > Cataloging Matters Podcasts > http://blog.jweinheimer.net/cataloging-matters-podcasts > The Library Herald http://libnews.jweinheimer.net/ > > [delay +30 days] > > _______________________________________________ > Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org > Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz <mailto:Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz> > https://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha >
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