[librecat-dev] MARC21 beginner question

[Jakob Voß]

Hi,

Despite working in library IT since years I managed to avoid getting in 
touch with MARC21 data - until now. Could you please help me with a 
beginner question? How do I convert the "human readable representation"
of MARC to MARCXML? I use the example MARC records found at

https://www.loc.gov/marc/bibliographic/examples.html

I tried with all available importer of Catmandu-MARC but no luck. I 
guess the human readable representation is not a real MARC variant but 
how to I convert it to "real MARC" automatically?

Cheers
Jakob

P.S: Conversion should also work for leader-less records, e.g.

echo '100 1#$aSurname, Given' | catmandu convert MARC --type ???

{"_id":null, "record":[["LDR",null,null,"_"," 
"],["100","1"," ","a","Surname, Given",]]}

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