On Jan 17, 2007, at 2:48 PM, Nathan Vack wrote:
On Jan 17, 2007, at 2:26 PM, Andrew Nagy wrote:
Nate, it's pretty easy. Once you dump your records into a giant marc
file, you can run marc2xml
(http://search.cpan.org/~kados/MARC-XML-0.82/bin/marc2xml). Then
run an
XSLT against the marcxml file to create your SOLR xml docs.
Unless I'm totally, hugely mistaken, MARC doesn't say anything about
holdings data, right? If I want to facet on that, would it make more
sense to add holdings data to the MARC XML data, or keep separate xml
files for holdings that reference the item data?
In a lot of cases, location data might not be a hugely important
facet; at Madison, we have something like 42 libraries spread thinly
across campus (gah!) -- each with different loan policies -- as well
as a few request-only storage facilities. So there's a lot of "Stuff
I Can't Check Out" and a lot of "Stuff I'll Need To Wait For" in our
collection.
Actually, there is a MARC format for holdings data,
http://www.loc.gov/marc/holdings/echdhome.html
And a number of the 8XX fields in the bib record can contain holdings
data:
http://www.loc.gov/marc/bibliographic/ecbdhold.html
So it may not be totally unnatural to put your holdings-related facet
info into the MARC XML alongside the bib data. (Though you may want to
think about how to handle long serials runs.)
I would think that the big question is how (whether?) Voyager
exports holdings data.
Tod Olson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Programmer/Analyst
University of Chicago Library
