Re: After MARC...MODS?

From: Mitchell, Michael <Michael.Mitchell_at_nyob>
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2010 09:45:38 -0500
To: NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
MJ,

MarcEdit has several conversion options including MARC to MODS. I don't know how well it works but it does a lot of other things well.
<http://people.oregonstate.edu/~reeset/marcedit/html/index.php>

Michael Mitchell
Technical Services Librarian
Brazosport College
Lake Jackson, TX
michael.mitchell at brazosport.edu 

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From: Next generation catalogs for libraries [mailto:NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Walker, David
Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2010 8:56 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


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David Walker
Library Web Services Manager
California State University
http://xerxes.calstate.edu
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