Data mapping tool
From DISMARC Help
Registered users may use the data mapping tool for entering mappings of their catalogue data to the DISMARC application profiles. The user can enter the native field name in the “Your field” column and add several comments in the “Your Comment” field. The fields may be duplicated if more than one native field fits to a single DISMARC field. (In Dublin core the duplication and leaving out of fields is not restricted.)
In the “Your Comment” field the DISMARC vocabularies are pre-entered and new data will be automatically checked for any possibility to connect to a DISMARC vocabulary.
The most important field within the mapping is the OAI identifier field (Internal Identification No.) which appears at the end of the form (Section “Info”). In this field the user should enter the unique identifier field for the data in the native database. This information will allow the later updating of records in the common repository.
When the user uploads the mapping the tool automatically creates:
- A basic mapper written in PHP
- A collection description
- A table for further usage
This information is then send automatically to the DISMARC technical responsible personnel.
OPTIONAL: If the native data makes use of individual vocabularies that could be mapped to the DISMARC vocabularies the user may download the substitution lists at the end of the tool. These can be filled in and send to the technical DISMARC team via email.
Archives that do not have data describing their collections can use the section “Collection” for entering information on the collection connected to the object data.
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