To the list and Greg,
I'm not nearly as far along as Greg is, but my concerns are the same.
How to create a finding aid once and use it in multiple systems? In
addition to EAD to MARC, I also wonder about GILS and the Dublin Core to
MARC and EAD. Mapping one element to a similar element in another
system is almost always less than perfect. Or seems so to me. Is there
an answer out there? Is Mulder really dead?
Carolyn Foster
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>From: Gregory Kinney[SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
>Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 1997 3:12 PM
>To: Multiple recipients of list EAD
>Subject: Re: EAD to MARC
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>> Has anyone experimented with using the encodinganalog attribute for the
>> various EAD elements with a view to possibly extracting a MARC record (or
>> most of a MARC record) from an encoded finding aid. As we have developed
>> a template for encoding Bentley Library finding aids we have tried to map
>> appropriate EAD elements to MARC fields. For example, were are using
>>
>> <ARCHDESC>
>> <DID>
>> <origination> mapped as MARC 100/110
>> <unittitle> mapped as NARC 245 del-a
>> <unitdate> mapped as MARC 245 del-f
>> <physdesc><extent> mapped as MARC 300
>> </DID>
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>> The <controlaccess><corpname|persname|subject> tags are mapped to MARC
>> 600/610 and 700/710 as appropriate with source= attributes
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>>
>> Some of these are obvious analogs but problems arise when an EAD element
>> cannot contain a sub-element comparable to a MARC sub-field, e.g,
>> <corpname> can contain <subarea> but <persname> cannot contain a <date>
>>
>> What we have not been able to figure out is exactly how the encodinganalog
>> attibute is supposed to be used. The Gilliland-Swetland/LaPorte EAD
>> Applications Guidelines suggests possibilities but offers no practical
>> instruction. Few of the finding aids I have looked at on-line have used
>> the encodinganalog attribute. If anyone has given this matter any
>> thought or experimented with a script to extract a MARC record I would
>> appreciate hearing from you.
>>
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