Lessons from a Year of MARC to RDF Migration

"Lessons from a Year of MARC to RDF Migration" reports on a twelve-month programme converting a sizeable MARC21 catalogue into RDF. The paper documents recurring data-quality issues, the trade-offs between faithful preservation and cleanup, and the workflow choices that proved durable.

The findings inform the European Literary Bibliography project by setting out reusable patterns for migrating legacy bibliographic records into linked open data.