[CODE4LIB] Validating MARC records

[Jiao, Dazhi]

Hi,

At IU we are running our OPAC using Blacklight. From time to time there are 
some catalog errors that would cause errors in our custom code to extract 
fields from the MARC records. For example, sometimes a subfield may 
unexpectedly appear in a field, or an expected subfield is accidentally named 
to another subfield.

While we can catch these errors in our code, we’d also like to be able to 
discover them and notify the catalogers before the records are exposed in the 
discover layer. I wonder if anyone here has experiences with some MARC 
validation tool for this purpose?

Best,

David

--
David Jiao
Principal Software Engineer
Indiana University Enterprise Library Systems
812.855.7189; dj...@iu.edu

Re: [CODE4LIB] Academic consortium with blacklight as discovery layer

[Jiao, Dazhi]

We customized blacklight to add a campus based view for each of our 9 campuses. 
In the campus view, the search results are restricted to only the records 
available at that campus. You can take a look at our catalog at 
http://iucat.iu.edu. Click on the “Change Location” button to choose a campus 
view.

David

--
David Jiao
Senior System Analyst
Enterprise Library Systems, Indiana University
dj...@iu.edumailto:dj...@iu.edu



On Apr 8, 2015, at 4:48 PM, Daniel Sifton 
daniel.sif...@viu.camailto:daniel.sif...@viu.ca wrote:

Hi,


Before I dive into the Blacklight development list, is anyone aware of 
instances where this is happening?


Thanks,


D.
[VIU-full-text-and-tagline]_
Daniel Sifton | Coordinator, Library Automation and Technical Services | 
Vancouver Island University Library | 900 Fifth St,
Nanaimo, BC V9R 5S5 | Tel: 250.753.3245, x2444  | Email: 
daniel.sif...@viu.camailto:daniel.sif...@viu.camailto:daniel.sif...@viu.ca 
| Twitterhttp://twitter.com/VIULibrary

image001.png

[CODE4LIB] marc4js - a node.js module for processing MARC data

[Jiao, Dazhi]

Hi,

I wrote a Node.js module for handling MARC data while trying to learn MARC and 
Node.js. I borrowed a lot of ideas from marc4j, ruby-marc and pymarc.The module 
is open-source and hosted on github. If you are interested please check it out 
at https://github.com/jiaola/marc4js. It’s still at its early stage but I’d 
like to share it with the community and hopefully someone will find it useful. 
Feel free to submit a bug report, feature request or join the effort to make it 
better.

Thanks!

David

--
David Jiao
System Analyst
Enterprise Library Systems
Indiana University