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scriptotek / mc2skos

Command line script for converting Marc21 Classification and Authority records to SKOS/RDF
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Language tags #4

Closed danmichaelo closed 8 years ago

danmichaelo commented 8 years ago

Atm. we have @nb hardcoded. We could perhaps use the value from 040 $b, and default to English.

I'm a bit puzzled by the definition for 040 $b in Marc21 Classification though: “MARC code for the language used in the textual portions of the record in the Note fields (6XX).” (https://www.loc.gov/marc/classification/cd040.html). Wonder why they chose to limit it to note fields.. In Marc21 Bibliographic the definition is more general.

For converting from ISO 639-2 to 639-1 I've used iso-639 before.

nichtich commented 8 years ago

Yes, 040 $b is the right place. I've looked up in German DDC, it's in there with ger.