%0 Journal Article %1 Styles_2008_SemMARC %A Styles, Rob %A Ayers, Danny %A Shapir, Nadeem %D 2008 %K frbr marc rdf semantic_web %T Semantic MARC, MARC21 and the Semantic Web %U http://events.linkeddata.org/ldow2008/papers/02-styles-ayers-semantic-marc.pdf %X 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 RDFgenerated from MARC records may be linked to other data sources on the Web.

@article{Styles_2008_SemMARC, abstract = {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 RDFgenerated from MARC records may be linked to other data sources on the Web.}, added-at = {2010-02-05T12:26:40.000+0100}, author = {Styles, Rob and Ayers, Danny and Shapir, Nadeem}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/270834d2100fddb3b22dc1f519fc89b6f/maxirichter}, interhash = {41204db3af5c5f199f699a071328bafd}, intrahash = {70834d2100fddb3b22dc1f519fc89b6f}, keywords = {frbr marc rdf semantic_web}, month = {April}, note = {Talk at the WWW 2008 Workshop: Linked Data on the Web (LDOW2008), April 22, 2008 in Beijing, China}, timestamp = {2010-02-05T12:26:40.000+0100}, title = {Semantic MARC, MARC21 and the Semantic Web}, url = {http://events.linkeddata.org/ldow2008/papers/02-styles-ayers-semantic-marc.pdf}, year = 2008 }