Library Cataloging
There is a preconference on Lucene and Solr before the Code4lib conference. Because of that Andrew Nagy has made available his MARCXML2SOLR XSLT document. If you have some MARC records in XML and want to get them into a format Solr understands, now you can. MarcEdit, among other tools, will get your MARC into MARCXML format. Can't make it to the preconference, use this tool to play along at home.
MARC
- Marc Tool
yaz-marcdump is a free tool from Index Data to manipulate MARC records. Perhaps it is just the tool you need to convert those MARC21 records encoded in MARC-8 into UTF-8. yaz-marcdump reads MARC records from one or more files. It parses each record and...
- Code4lib Conference
The video from the Code4Lib Conference is now on Archive.org. Note that you can get the MPEG2 high def format there. Some talks include:MARCThing Casey Durfee discusses MARCThing, a self-contained web service which aims to do for MARC and Z39.50 what...
- Blacklight, Another Opac Option
Blacklight, an open source OPAC using ruby on rails and solr, has now been released.A next generation library catalog written in ruby, using solr as the underlying search engine. All you have to do is export your marc records, index them with the scripts...
- Marc Tools
In a few weeks I'm giving a talk on MARC tools.There are many free tools available to perform specific tasks on MARC records. Proper use of these tools will help to eliminate improper coding, clean up of catalogs, or transform records into another...
- Marc Edit
A new version of MARC Edit by Terry Reese is now available. Here are some of the new features: Enhanced MarcEngine -- for faster MARC manipulation and more exposed functions/methodsGlobal Indicator editing tools and enhancements to all existing editing...
Library Cataloging
MARC to Solr
There is a preconference on Lucene and Solr before the Code4lib conference. Because of that Andrew Nagy has made available his MARCXML2SOLR XSLT document. If you have some MARC records in XML and want to get them into a format Solr understands, now you can. MarcEdit, among other tools, will get your MARC into MARCXML format. Can't make it to the preconference, use this tool to play along at home.
MARC
- Marc Tool
yaz-marcdump is a free tool from Index Data to manipulate MARC records. Perhaps it is just the tool you need to convert those MARC21 records encoded in MARC-8 into UTF-8. yaz-marcdump reads MARC records from one or more files. It parses each record and...
- Code4lib Conference
The video from the Code4Lib Conference is now on Archive.org. Note that you can get the MPEG2 high def format there. Some talks include:MARCThing Casey Durfee discusses MARCThing, a self-contained web service which aims to do for MARC and Z39.50 what...
- Blacklight, Another Opac Option
Blacklight, an open source OPAC using ruby on rails and solr, has now been released.A next generation library catalog written in ruby, using solr as the underlying search engine. All you have to do is export your marc records, index them with the scripts...
- Marc Tools
In a few weeks I'm giving a talk on MARC tools.There are many free tools available to perform specific tasks on MARC records. Proper use of these tools will help to eliminate improper coding, clean up of catalogs, or transform records into another...
- Marc Edit
A new version of MARC Edit by Terry Reese is now available. Here are some of the new features: Enhanced MarcEngine -- for faster MARC manipulation and more exposed functions/methodsGlobal Indicator editing tools and enhancements to all existing editing...