marc2bibframe trasformation / mods2bibframe

[George Duimovich]

Wishlist

For targeting some upcoming release:

http://goo.gl/gWCIt

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"Early Experimentation Code Available
We're making code available that will permit programmers and developers to better understand how MARC Bibliographic records can transform to BIBFRAME resources. The code is available at: https://github.com/lcnetdev/marc2bibframe "
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Not sure what licence the code is being made available under, but perhaps worth starting to flag / group potential future bibframe type developments.

[Jason Stephenson (jstephenson)]

Can I ask what use is bibframe to us? This is the first that I've heard of it.

[Jason Stephenson (jstephenson)]

Having looked at the github repo, I'd say we can't use their code. It lacks a license, with by default in the U.S. means All Rights Reserved. We cannot safely assume we can use it without being sued.

[George Duimovich (george-duimovich)]

More information here:
www.loc.gov/marc/transition/index.html
www.loc.gov/marc/transition/news/bibframe-112312.html

The new hotness for talk about transitioning away from MARC 21. Don't see anything practical happening soon, but worth watching to see if anything experimental leads somewhere. Needs to be put EG radar at least.

[George Duimovich (george-duimovich)]

FWIW, some updates

MARC2BibFrame transformation code, recently declared a license ("public domain") here: https://github.com/lcnetdev/marc2bibframe/

Additional tools: http://bibframe.org/tools/

BibFrame Editor - BFE and related components also licensed in the Public Domain.

[George Duimovich (george-duimovich)]

And another reference point for work taking place in the MARCEdit tool used by many cataloguers:

http://blog.reeset.net/archives/1359

[George Duimovich (george-duimovich)]

New MODS to BibFrame XSLT released by LoC:

https://github.com/LibraryOfCongress/mods2bibframe

requested that LoC declare a license (issue #1)

<I'm not sure how the below just slipped in there, but...]

Sierra ILS sucks - go Evergreen go!!

[Jane Sandberg (sandbergja)]

FYI, BIBFRAME 2.0 exists now, and LC has new XSLT available: https://github.com/lcnetdev/marc2bibframe2

It's also released with CC0 Public Domain dedication.