On 11/30/07, Galen Charlton <galen.charlton@liblime.com> wrote:
Hi,
On 11/30/07, Chris Nighswonger <cnighswonger@foundations.edu> wrote:
1. From the user prospective: Is there any interest/demand for this type of feature?
I can confirm that there is a lot of interest in this sort of thing for digital library projects. See http://meta-extractor.sourceforge.net/ for a (Java) tool built by the National Library of New Zealand.
2. From the developer prospective: What is the best mapping plan for marc fields to ID3v2 frames and vise-versa? If you are not familiar with the ID3v2 standard, take a look at http://www.id3.org/id3v2.4.0-frames which is probably the relevant part for this discussion.
Doing a mapping to MARC is where it would get tricky -- most digital library projects stuff this sort of data into XML following various schemas. One approach might be to look for example mappings to Dublin Core entities, then map back to MARC, e.g., dc.title = 245$a, etc. Or perhaps it's 'bout time' we take advantage of Zebra's ability to index multiple formats and create a set of Dublin Core frameworks? :-)
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