Re: marc software

[Steve Thomas <sthomas@library.adelaide.edu.au>]

At 14:29 15/03/99 -0500, Rutherford, John (Library) wrote:
>Greetings, I am looking for public domain software for unix
>that can read files of marc records and hopefully provide output
>in various formats including delimited formats for loading into
>mysql or other similar databases. I have found some dos and VB
>packages but would prefer unix software, possibly perl.


I have written a Perl utility to manipulate MARC data files. You can find
it at

	http://www.library.adelaide.edu.au/~sthomas/scripts/

The utility (marc.pl) allows you to convert between raw MARC and a text
representation of MARC -- i.e. you can input MARC and output text, and vice
versa. You can also copy a range of records from the source (as in "skip n
records and copy the next m records"), and you can copy records matching a
string (actually, a regular expression).

It doesn't do everything you want (output in various formats) but you (or
others) may still find it useful. I dare say you could easily adapt it. The
script uses a package, MARC.pm, which is just two routines to convert raw
MARC and "text MARC" into a simple array. It would be trivial to add
routines for other formats.


I've been meaning to publicise this -- now is the time, I guess.

Steve
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