[librecat-dev] MARC21 beginner question

Jakob Voß Jakob.Voss at gbv.de
Fri Feb 19 12:08:07 CET 2016


Nicolas Franck wrote:

> There are several formats to serialize MARC21: XML, ALEPHSEQ (from exlibris) ..
> See classes Catmandu::Importer::* on cpan

Yes but none of them can parse this format actually used by the Library 
of Congress to exemplify MARC21 format:

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

By the way: how do you quickly create MARC records by hand from command 
line? The sample format linke aboe looks very convenient to type:

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

Jakob

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