[Koha-devel] Any interest in adding MP3 ID3v2 read/write capability to Koha?

[Joshua Ferraro]

On 11/30/07, Galen Charlton <galen.charlton at liblime.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 11/30/07, Chris Nighswonger <cnighswonger at 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? :-)

Cheers,

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