MARC-XML Java Library

A Java library for getting easily metadata from a MARC21-XML source without knowing the insides of MARCXML standard.

Usage

1. Create an instance of MarcXml:

• from an input stream

InputStream is = ...;
Record record = MarcXmlRecord.from(is);
MarcXml marcXml = new MarcXml(record);

• from an URI:

URI uri = ...;
Record record = MarcXmlRecord.from(uri);
MarcXml marcXml = new MarcXml(record);

2. Read metadata of interest:

TODO

3. Convert to other standard object (e.g. DublinCore) and get metadata:

DublinCore dc = marcXml.toDublinCore();

List<String> dcCreators = dc.getCreators();
List<String> dcDates = dc.getDates();
String dcLanguage = dc.getLanguage();
List<String> dcPublishers = dc.getPublishers();

Documentation

• MARC 21 Formats
• MARC 21 Format for Bibliographic Data
• Documentation for Dublin Core see DCMI Metadata Terms
• Extracting Dublin Core fields following the XSL-Transformation MARCXML to OAI Encoded Simple Dublin Core Stylesheet and http://www.loc.gov/standards/marcxml/xslt/MARC21slimUtils.xsl

Tests

Tests are based

• on the example Marc21-XML (from https://www.loc.gov/standards/marcxml/Sandburg/sandburg.xml):

"Arithmetic", Autor: Carl Sandburg; Ted Rand, Verlag: San Diego : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1993

• The Dublin Core representation of this book (https://www.loc.gov/standards/marcxml/Sandburg/sandburgdc.xml)
• The XSLT-transformation output marc21-sandburg.dc.xml (applied MARC21slim2OAIDC.xsl on marc21-sandburg.xml)