The MARC they send is not valid. The first 24 characters of MARC are determined to some extent by the syntax and we use them to recognize it as MARC. You could perhaps petition the libraries to send valid MARC (though that probbaly won't work).
Christiaan On 14 Dec 2007, at 2:04 PM, Stephan Kurz wrote: > Dear list, > > using BD 1.3.12 on Mac OS X 10.5.1 (yeah, at least on my office mac, I > have finally left 10.3.9 panther world!), I have experienced a problem > adding a search group for my local university library: > aleph.univie.ac.at:9992, database UBW01, USMARC, utf-8 encoding > > I have been looking in the list archive and only found Simon’s > requests for support of Basel and Zürich ULib catalogues which did not > seem really useful for this case. > > Search seems to work so far, but the catalogue data seems to be parsed > in a non-human-readable way. > > A search for AC05915622 (this is some kind of unique identifier for > one title in the Austrian union catalogue database), actually first I > searched for "au=darwin and ti=origin" brings up exactly 1 match – and > all available data are imported to the Annote field as follows: > > 00757nM2.01000325 45 > h001001400000005001700014026001800031030001600049036000700065037000800 > 0720500017000800510010000970700008001070760007001151000031001223310030 > 0015335900520018340300150023541000180025041200160026842500090028443300 > 1500293451003100308453001500339454002300354455001000377456000800387540 > 001800395540001800413 > $$aAC0591562220070416090200.0 aOBVAC05915622 z|1dcr|||||17a aGBb > aeng a|a||||||||||| s|||||| aUBWs a27 aDarwin, Charles9118523813 > a<<The>> origin of species aCharles Darwin. Introd. by L. Harrison > Matthews aLast repr. aLondon [u.a.] aDent [u.a.]a a1972 aXX, 488 > S. aEveryman's library ; [811]r aAC00131892c aEveryman's library > a[811] a811a a0-460-00811-0a a0-460-01811-6 > > Then, I tried the same search in the Austrian Union catalogue (which > is meteor.bibvb.ac.at:9991, database ACC01EN, using USMARC and > iso-8859-1 encoding, which lead to a similar result, namely > > 00809nM2.01000337---45- > h001001400000005001700014026001800031030001600049036000700065037000800 > 0720500017000800510010000970700008001070760007001151000031001223310030 > 0015335900520018340300150023541000180025041200160026842500090028443300 > 1500293451003100308453001500339454002300354455001000377456000800387540 > 001800395540001800413088004000431 > $$aAC0591562220070416090100.0 aOBVAC05915622 z|1dcr|||||17a aGBb > aeng a|a||||||||||| s|||||| aUBWs a27 aDarwin, Charles9118523813 > a<<The>> origin of species aCharles Darwin. Introd. by L. Harrison > Matthews aLast repr. aLondon [u.a.] aDent [u.a.]a a1972 aXX, 488 > S. aEveryman's library ; [811]r aAC00131892c aEveryman's library > a[811] a811a a0-460-00811-0a a0-460-01811-6 aA074bMcZ-II=Everyman's > L./811e28 > > I’m a bit lost with this… Z39.50 access was one of the major causes > for me to go from panther to leopard, and now it’s not working > properly (mumblemumble) – > > Any comments on how to improve this? Both catalogues are quite > important for me, but to enlarge the focus it would rather be better > to start with the union catalogue I guess… > What are my next steps? File a feature request? Find out something > about the actual syntax that ACC01EN uses (How?)? > > It might not seem very unusual in such a case, but then I have once > again to say that BD is one of the most useful apps and I am thankful > that it exists already, thanks for a wonderful app. > > Best, > Stephan > > > p.s.: Endnote connection files (both not working with EN11 which I > happen to have a campus license for but still don’t want to use) for > both catalogues are available here: > http://www.univie.ac.at/bibliothekssystem/opac-pdfs/UBW.enz > http://opac.obvsg.at/opac_help/OBV.enz > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;164216239;13503038;w?http://sf.net/marketplace _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users
