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Data [re]Cycle

1. Candidate to ProQuest 2. ProQuest markup in XML3. Locally transform XML for IRO 4. Convert to MARC for OCLC/InfoHawk

Original ProQuest data

XML after transformation

XSLT for bepress conversion

Stylesheet instructions to• Standardize capitalization• Add field for bibliographic references• Add note for optimized files• Control vocabulary for degrees

XSLT Conversion Files

Discpline, Department, Optimization

Thesis Advisor

Controlled Names and Vocabularies

Standard Character Set

Character Conflict

• Bepress (IRO)– Allows formatting (italics, bold, superscript)– Does not allow actual characters or name entities– Accepts only numeric entities

• OCLC – Does not allow formatting – Does not allow name entities – Allows numeric entities or the actual character

HTML file check

Upload to Bepress

Convert XML MARC/XML

• Title in 245• 2nd indicator = 3

when title begins with “An ”

• 2nd indicator = 4 when title begins with “The ”

MarcEdit

Export to OCLC