Re: authority files optimised for linked open data?

From: Jakob Voß <Jakob.Voss_at_nyob>
Date: Mon, 29 May 2017 09:10:44 +0200
To: CODE4LIB_at_LISTS.CLIR.ORG
Hi,

Stuart A. Yeates asked:

> I'm currently scripting the conversion of >100000 authority records into
> MARC. I have quite a bit of sundry information about some of the people and
> I'd like encode this in a way which makes it optimal for use / reuse as LOD.
>
> Does anyone have any pointers or examples?

Have a look at the following tool to convert MARC 21 Classification 
records to SKOS/RDF:

https://github.com/scriptotek/mc2skos#readme

Dan Michael O. Heggø started to add support for MARC 21 Format for 
Authority Data:

https://github.com/scriptotek/mc2skos/issues/29

Contributions and test cases are welcome!

Cheers
Jakob

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Received on Mon May 29 2017 - 03:10:53 EDT