Metadata mapping, again

Today I met with Cassandra to go over what I had come up with so far in terms of mapping from MARC to BibClass to DC. I have a good start, but there are some questions, and it's going to need to get much more detailed when it comes to mapping to specific BibClass indexes. It might end up being a trial and error sort of thing - we run it through and see what happens and then tweak from there. I need to go over this with Mark and then get back to Cassandra by the end of the week. I tried emailing Stephen Davison again to see if there is a required minimum number of records to be considered as a Data Provider. If we don't meet the minimum at this point, at least the procedure will (hopefully!) be set out for the future. And, I certainly will have learned a lot in the process!

After meeting with Cassandra, I continued to tweak the table a bit and tried to find some additional examples that would help clear up some questions. I found a few examples of rights management statements that might help us develop one of our own. I'm still perplexed by the date issue - I think we can get at the "date of digitization" of each pdf but it's going to be very time-consuming to look those up and add them manually. After further reading the SMC's guidelines, multiple date fields can be entered. The example gives a [date of digitization] field (in ISO YYYY-MM-DD format) as well as a date of publication as it appears in the MARC record.

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