Hi all LibreCat -=-=-=-=
LibreCat is an open collaboration of the university libraries of Lund, Ghent, and Bielefeld to create tools for library and research services. One of the toolkits we provide is called 'Catmandu' (http://search.cpan.org/~nics/Catmandu-0.5004/lib/Catmandu.pm) which is a suite of tools to do ETL processing on library data. We provide tools to import data via JSON, YAML, CSV, MARC, SRU, OAI-PMH and more. To transform this data we created a small DSL language that librarians use in our institutions. Also we make it very easy to store the results in MongoDB, ElasticSearch, Solr or export it into various formats. We create also command line tools because we felt that in our daily jobs we were creating the same type of adhoc Perl scripts over and over for endless reports. E.g. to create a CSV file of all titles in a MARC export we say something like: $ catmandu convert MARC to CSV --fix 'marc_map("245","title"); retain_field("record");' < records.mrc To get all titles from our institutional repository we say: $ catmandu convert OAI --url http://biblio.ugent.be/oai to JSON --fix 'retain_field("title")' To store a MARC export into a MongoDB we do: $ catmandu import MARC to MongoDB --database_name mydb --bag data < records.mrc Here is a blog post about the commands that are available: http://librecat.org/catmandu/2013/06/21/catmandu-cheat-sheet.html See our project page for more information about LibreCat and Catmandu : http://librecat.org and a tutorial how to work with the API http://librecat.org/tutorial/ MODS::Record -=-=-=-=-=-= In one of our Catmandu projects we created a Perl connector for Fedora Commons (http://search.cpan.org/~hochsten/Catmandu-FedoraCommons-0.24). One of our goals was to integrate better with the Islandora project. For this we needed a Perl MODS parser. As there was no module available on CPAN we provide a top level module like MARC::Record called MODS::Record http://search.cpan.org/~hochsten/MODS-Record-0.05/lib/MODS/Record.pm. I hope this will be of some help for the community. If there are coders here who would like to contribute to the MODS package please drop me a line. I think CPAN MODS support shouldn't be dependent on one coder, one institution. Greetings from a sunny Belgium, Patrick
