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>
>>
>> The <controlaccess><corpname|persname|subject> tags are mapped to MARC
>> 600/610 and 700/710  as appropriate with source= attributes
>>
>>
>> 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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