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There are a number of tools available:
https://www.loc.gov/marc/marctools.html
I have no experience with any of them, but perhaps MarcEdit
would suit her needs:
https://marcedit.reeset.net/
This is probably more a question of what do you
want the final solution to look like. It may
not be hard to create a home-grown solution to this.
Mike
On 3/27/2019 11:00 PM, MAPS-L automatic digest system wrote:
> Subject:
> Getting MARC coordinates into other metadata standards
> From:
> Susan Moore <[log in to unmask]>
> Date:
> 3/27/2019, 8:29 AM
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>
> Fellow Mapsters!
>
> I received an email from Camille Lannan, who is the map cataloger for
> the Brooklyn Historical Society. She sent the following question and
> since my library isn't trying to do much with portals and I know
> others are, I asked if I could share this with MAPS-L. She agreed and
> here is her question:
>
> I am the map cataloger for the Brooklyn Historical Society and we
> working on a grant-funded map digitization project. We have just hit a
> road bump and I'm wondering if you might be able to advise. We have
> been researching GIS for our maps through the program BoundingBox, in
> MARC format so that it can be added to ALEPH and used in our Catalog
> (BobCat). We are also planning to populate a portal with the digitized
> maps and GIS data. The problem we're having is that the MARC format
> doesn't seem to be readable anywhere and we're having trouble finding
> how or where to convert it to another metadata standard like Dublin
> Core, KML or GEOJSON. Are you aware of a program or website that can
> interpret MARC GIS or covert it to the other formats?
>
> I know there are folks out there doing some of this and I'd appreciate
> it if you would share your experience and knowledge with her. I will
> be out on medical leave starting tomorrow the 28th so if you could
> make sure she gets your reply, she and I would appreciate that.
>
> Susan Moore
> University of Northern Iowa
> Cedar Falls, IA 50614
> [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
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