I’m surprised you didn’t recommend going straight to Solr and doing the
reporting from there :) Index into Solr using your MARC library of choice
(e.g. solrmarc) and then get all authorities using &facet.field=authorities (or
whatever field name used).
Erik
On Nov 2, 2014, at 7:24 PM, Jonathan Rochkind <[email protected]> wrote:
> If you are, can become, or know, a programmer, that would be relatively
> straightforward in any programming language using the open source MARC
> processing library for that language. (ruby marc, pymarc, perl marc,
> whatever).
>
> Although you might find more trouble than you expect around authorities, with
> them being less standardized in your corpus than you might like.
> ________________________________________
> From: Code for Libraries [[email protected]] on behalf of Stuart
> Yeates [[email protected]]
> Sent: Sunday, November 02, 2014 5:48 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [CODE4LIB] MARC reporting engine
>
> I have ~800,000 MARC records from an indexing service
> (http://natlib.govt.nz/about-us/open-data/innz-metadata CC-BY). I am trying
> to generate:
>
> (a) a list of person authorities (and sundry metadata), sorted by how many
> times they're referenced, in wikimedia syntax
>
> (b) a view of a person authority, with all the records by which they're
> referenced, processed into a wikipedia stub biography
>
> I have established that this is too much data to process in XSLT or
> multi-line regexps in vi. What other MARC engines are there out there?
>
> The two options I'm aware of are learning multi-line processing in sed or
> learning enough koha to write reports in whatever their reporting engine is.
>
> Any advice?
>
> cheers
> stuart
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