jskos2marc

Convert JSKOS authority records to MARC21

Table of Contents

• Background
• Install
• API
  • jskos2marc
  • jskos2marcjson
  • jskos2marcxml
  • marcxml
  • jskos_decode
• License

Background

This library provides conversion from JSKOS format to MARC 21 Authority format.

See mc2skos for the reverse conversion.

See also jskos-tools for a similar library in JavaScript.

Install

Just copy file src/jskos2marc.php where needed.

Requires PHP 7 (but might work on PHP 5.6 as well).

Usage

See API section below for details to use in PHP source code:

require_once 'src/jskos2marc.php';

$jskos = [ [ 'prefLabel' => [ 'de' => 'Test' ] ] ];

if ($format === 'marcxml') {
  header('Content-Type: application/xml; charset=utf-8');
  echo JSKOS\jskos2marcxml($jskos);
} else if ($format === 'marcjson') {
  header("Content-type: application/json; charset=utf-8");
  echo JSKOS\jskos2marcjson($jskos);
}

See script bin/jskos2marc to convert JSKOS to MARC from command line:

./bin/jskos2marc $URL $FILENAME ...

API

The following PHP functions are defined in the JSKOS namespace:

jskos2marc

Convert an array of JSKOS objects to an array of MARC objects (encoded like MARC JSON).

jskos2marcjson

Convert an array of JSKOS objects to a MARC JSON string.

jskos2marcxml

Convert an array of JSKOS objects to a MARC XML string.

marcxml

Convert an MARC JSON record to a MARC XML string.

jskos_decode

Decode a JSON string into an array of JSKOS objects.

License

MIT