The three (Perl) modules described below look pretty cool, as well as "kewl" -- an interface to read/write MODS, an interface to interact with Fedora Commons, an interface to convert data from one thing to another. I can see how these can be useful tools in some of my work. Thank you. --Eric Lease Morgan
On Aug 6, 2013, at 2:59 AM, Patrick Hochstenbach <patrick.hochstenb...@ugent.be> wrote: > 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
