MARC Transformations
Some notes on open source projects this morning. MARC4J is currently at beta version 6.
The goal of MARC4J is to provide an easy to use Application Programming Interface (API) for working with MARC records in Java.Using MARC4J it is easy to write any kind of Java application or servlet that involves MARC or MARCXML data. MARC4J provides SAX2 consumers and producers for conversions between MARC and MARCXML, including support for character conversions between MARC-8 and UCS/Unicode environments. Together with the SAX2 interface it is possible to write robust MARC to XML conversion programs simply by implementing the methods in the MarcHandler interface. The MARC record object model can be used to convert XML back to MARC tape format. The record object model is also suitable for in-memory editing of MARC records, just as DOM is used for XML editing purposes. The MARC4J library can also be used for reporting purposes, to import MARC records into databases, or to provide transformations between different MARC formats.
- Editor For Marc Records
Eclipse Editor for MARC Records by Bojana Dimi? Surla appears in the latest issue of Information Technology and Libraries. Editing bibliographic data is an important part of library information systems. In this paper we discuss existing approaches in...
- New Version Of Marc4j
For the first time in almost two years there has been a new release of marc4j. Release 2.4 is a minor release in the sense that it shouldn't break any existing code, but it's a major release in the sense that it represents an influx of new people...
- Marc4j Workbook
Crosswalking: Processing MARC in XML Environments with MARC4J by Bas Peters is now available from Lulu.This concise book is for library programmers who want to learn to use MARC4J to process bibliographic data. MARC4J is an open source software library...
- Z39.50
oss4lib reports that the Visual Basic Binding of ZOOM Z39.50 API has a new version available.:VB-ZOOM is an ActiveX COMponent, written in Visual Basic, which is an implementation of the ZOOM (Z39.50 Object-Orientation Model) Abstract API. It is a wrapper...
- 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...