[Koha] LC Name Authorities - Bulk upload LC database file into Koha Authorities module?

[James Weinheimer]

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 at gmail.com <mailto:tomascohen at 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 at gmail.com <mailto:weinheimer.jim.l at 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.
>     >
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