All,
We're planning to update our Metadata crosswalk
(http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/standards/intrometadata/3_crosswalks/index.html). We have already MARC21 (ex-USMARC) to EAD...is there a need for a mapping from EAD to MARC?

Karim Boughida

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>     Bonjour,
>
>     we plan on creating MARC records from EAD instances.
>
>     We want our conversion method to fulfil these three requirements :
>     1. our two steps process will first convert from EAD into some
>     XML-ized MARC and then from this XML-MARC to ISO 2709 ;
>     2. the first conversion will use an XSLT stylesheet ;
>     3. this XSLT transformation will be able to select any EAD element
>     and attribute, not only elements qualified by an 'encodinganalog'
>     attribute.
>
>     Therefore, I have two questions : the first is motivated by
>     curiosity and the second by... interest.
>
>     1. What is the /raison d'etre /of the 'encodinganalog' attribute ?
>     What is the advantage of an internal crosswalk over an external one
>     ? Is it just a 'relic' of old times, before the XSLT and XPATH
>     possibilities ?
>
>     2. Is there somewhere an available XSLT stylesheet to convert from
>     EAD into, by instance, MARC 21 XML schema (Library of Congress) ?
>     It would be a useful beginning point for us.
>
>     Thank you
>     Merci
>
>
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