Apologies, I would have sent this to MJ directly, but cannot find an email
address.
MJ,
You could try this utility. Download and install MARC Report. It has a free
30-day trial period (with no restrictons)
http://www.marcofquality.com/soft/mrtdownload-f.html
Once installed, start the program.
Go to the Utilities menu and select 'MARC to XML'.
Click the MARC21 button and select the file you want to convert
Click the XML button and setup a name for the results
(Hint: if converting a very large file, performance will improve by sending
the output to a different drive)
Click the Custom tab.
Click on the sylesheet box;
select MARC21slim2MODS3-3r.xml
(Hint: the 'r' stylesheets add one line to the default LC stylesheets that
will improve performance by several orders of magnitude)
Click Start Conversion.
If converting a large file, it would be a good idea to run the file through
the Verify utility first to make sure there are not any problems that could
trip up the conversion.
Deborah
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Deborah Fritz
MARC Database Consultant
The MARC of Quality
www.marcofquality.com
Voice/Fax: (321) 676-1904
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Next generation catalogs for libraries
> [mailto:NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Walker, David
> Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2010 9:56 AM
> To: NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
> Subject: Re: [NGC4LIB] After MARC...MODS?
>
> > After struggling for many hours yesterday with MARC::XML and MARC4J
> > (the only tools available to me), I'm still stuck.
>
> MJ, have you tried using yaz-marcdump [1], which comes with
> the yaz toolkit [2] ?
>
> You can invoke that from the command line to convert your
> MARC to MARC-XML. And then use XSLT to get the MARC-XML to MODS.
>
> Easy enough to then put that all in a script in the language
> of your choice to automate the whole thing.
>
> --Dave
>
> [1] http://www.indexdata.com/yaz/doc/yaz-marcdump.html
> [2] http://www.indexdata.com/yaz
>
>
> ==================
> David Walker
> Library Web Services Manager
> California State University
> http://xerxes.calstate.edu
> ________________________________________
> From: Next generation catalogs for libraries
> [NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of MJ Suhonos [mj_at_SUHONOS.CA]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2010 6:39 AM
> To: NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
> Subject: Re: [NGC4LIB] After MARC...MODS?
>
[snip]
> Case in point: I have about 10M MARC21 records that I want
> to try some "interesting stuff" with. The very first thing I
> need to do in order to a) use modern tools and b) make it
> readable for myself (a programmer and librarian, but not a
> trained cataloguer) is convert it to MODS. After struggling
> for many hours yesterday with MARC::XML and MARC4J (the only
> tools available to me), I'm still stuck. The data format
> sucks and the tools to free it into something modern also suck.
>
> If I was starting with MODS instead, I'd have a much larger
> set of tools to manipulate the XML, and tinker with ways to
> break it into linked data, crosswalk into Dublin Core, etc.
> (Aside: I'd like to serialize MODS into JSON but
> unfortunately it's too tied to XML to do this easily; love to
> hear ideas from anyone who might know how to do this.)
>
> I guess my point after all this ranting is that by our single
> criterion "better than MARC", MODS succeeds wildly. It's
> imperfect, absolutely; and by design it still inherits
> MARC-like concepts, but we are richer for having it as a
> tool. Why aren't we using it? If it's not "good enough",
> then we have to be specific about what criteria *would* make
> it "good enough", and for what purposes.
>
> MJ
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