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Thanks for asking this question Richard. I also am interested in hearing what sort of EAD<->MARC utilities might already exist. Mostly as an experiment, I have written a Perl script that uses XML::Parser to pull relevant information out of an EAD document and present it as an interpreted MARC record. It relies heavily upon the 'encodinganalog' attribute, and at the moment it doesn't figure out the MARC indicators. I would like to fix it up so that it could create a true MARC record in transmission format, and then possibly go the other way and create a skeleton EAD document out of a MARC record...but it sure would be nice if someone has already done this. If you want to see how this converter is currently working you can test it out at http://libstaff.lib.odu.edu:5000/sgml/bin/ead-toc.pl by selecting an XML file to convert by clicking on the adjacent 'create MARC' button. If you are curious to see the code just let me know. Ed Summers Old Dominion University Library Norfolk, Virginia. Date: Wed, 9 Jun 1999 17:57:49 -0700 From: Richard Rinehart <[log in to unmask]> Subject: converting MARC query Hello, I'm writing to ask if anyone on this group has experience or knowledge of tools and sites I can visit that can help with converting USMARC formatted records to and from other formats (EAD, MARC XML DTD, etc). I've seen the topic come up in reference on this list, and now have a working need for both our institution and for an EAD project to find some solutions. Any references would be much appreciated; thanks! Richard Rinehart ---------------- Information Systems Manager & Education Technology Specialist Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive @ University of California http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/ ---------------- & President, Museum Computer Network, http://www.mcn.edu/ ------------------------------