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Thank you very much. Kerstin "Fox, Michael" wrote: > Kerstin, > > There is a brief discussion of options in section 4.3.4 of the EAD > Application Guidelines. The Minnesota Historical Society current uses a > combination of Logos Software's Marcxml program and an XSL stylesheet to > convert MARC records to EAD. One could certainly swim in the other > direction, converting a finding aid into MARC. It would require a different > stylesheet. > > There will be some limitations, of course, principally in the area of > enhancements that will need to be made to the resulting MARC record. For > example, the MARC fixed fields will have default values supplied during the > conversion process, some of which like the date elements will have to be > manually inserted. Any fields in the 1XX, 6XX and 7XX sequences that have > subfields will require similar editing as EAD obviously does not support the > full granularity of encoding found in MARC for this data. This should be a > relatively straightforward matter. Finally, with this method your ILS must > have the capacity for importing an externally-produced MARC record in the > form of an ASCII text file. > > Michael > > Michael J. Fox > Assistant Director for Library and Archives > Minnesota Historical Society > 345 Kellogg Blvd West > St. Paul, MN 55102-2409 > 651-296-2150 (phone) > 651-296-9961 (fax) > [log in to unmask] > > -----Original Message----- > From: Kerstin Ringdahl [mailto:[log in to unmask]] > Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2001 12:18 PM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: EAD and MARC > > We are in the midst of changing to the Endeavor library catalog. > I am using XMetal 2.0 to produce EAD encoded finding aids. > What do we need to do to pull the Marc 21 records from XMetal 2.0 > to the online catalog? > > Thanks for your help. > > Kerstin Ringdahl > University Archivist > Pacific Lutheran University > Tacoma, WA., 98447 > [log in to unmask]