1. About this document

Author

Corey Wallis, RUBRIC Technical Officer

Purpose

This technical report outlines the way in which the EndNote to Fedora data migration scripts map fields in the MARCXML data to Dublin Core metadata.

Audience

RUBRIC Project Partners and other users of EndNote and Fedora

Requirements

An understanding of the structure of MARC tags and how they're represented in MARCXML

An understanding of the structure of the OAI compliant Dublin Core metadata

References

RUBRIC Technical Report: Migrating EndNote data to Fedora

Official EndNote website
http://www.endnote.com/

Official ARROW Project website
http://www.arrow.edu.au/

Official MARCXML website at the Library of Congress
http://www.loc.gov/standards/marcxml/

Official Open Archives Initiative (OAI) Dublin Core Specification
http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/openarchivesprotocol.html#dublincore

Notes

2. Background Information

In preparation for the EndNote to Fedora data migration it was necessary to map the available fields in the MARCXML data to the fields specified by the Open Archives Initiative implementation of the Dublin Core metadata standard. The map also had to take into consideration the requirements of the ARROW project.

The map outlined below was developed using the MARCXML templates provided by the ARROW project, and the “central register” a spreadsheet containing metadata guidelines for a variety of items.

The map deviates slightly from the specifications provided by the central register. Two notable deviations are that:

• There is one dc.subject field created for each subject. The existing ARROW guidelines produce one dc.subject field containing all subjects

• The order of information in some of the fields is different. For example the dc.publisher field has the publishers name appearing before the place of publication

These differences mean that if the Dublin Core metadata is regenerated by the VITAL manager the resulting metadata will not adhere to the map outlined in this technical report.

3. MARCXML to Dublin Core map

3.1. Data map definitions

The MARCXML to Dublin Core map contains the following columns:

MARC Field

The MARC field as specified by the ARROW template

MARC Subfield

The MARC subfield as specified by the ARROW template

Description

The description of the field

OAI Dublin Core Field

The OAI Dublin Core field

3.2. MARCXML to Dublin Core mapping