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
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