Re: [CODE4LIB] marc21 and usmarc

2009-01-23 Thread Till Kinstler
Ya'aqov Ziso schrieb: MAB German MARC Just to note that: MAB is (unfortunately) not a German MARC, it is structurally and semantically totally different from any MARC dialect. So it is really hard to work with MAB data, because all the nice open source tools for processing bibliographic

Re: [CODE4LIB] marc21 and usmarc

2009-01-23 Thread Brown, Alan
At 22 January 2009 16:28 Eric Lease Morgan wrote: Does anybody here know the difference between MARC21 and USMARC? I am munging sets of MARC bibliographic data from a III catalog with holdings data from the same. I am using MARC::Batch to read my bib' data (with both strict and warnings

Re: [CODE4LIB] marc21 and usmarc

2009-01-23 Thread Eric Lease Morgan
On 1/23/09 4:39 AM, Brown, Alan a.br...@bury.gov.uk wrote: Does anybody here know the difference between MARC21 and USMARC? I am munging sets of MARC bibliographic data from a III catalog with holdings data from the same. I am using MARC::Batch to read my bib' data (with both strict and

Re: [CODE4LIB] marc21 and usmarc

2009-01-23 Thread Tod Olson
On Jan 23, 2009, at 5:52 AM, Eric Lease Morgan wrote: On 1/23/09 4:39 AM, Brown, Alan a.br...@bury.gov.uk wrote: Does anybody here know the difference between MARC21 and USMARC? I am munging sets of MARC bibliographic data from a III catalog with holdings data from the same. I am using

Re: [CODE4LIB] marc21 and usmarc

2009-01-23 Thread Mark Jordan
- Jonathan Rochkind rochk...@jhu.edu wrote: A US-MARC/MARC21 record can actually be in MARC-8 encoding OR in UTF-8, and there is actually a field (fixed field I think) to declare which encoding is used. leader pos 09 Mark

Re: [CODE4LIB] marc21 and usmarc

2009-01-23 Thread Kyle Banerjee
Actually, I believe I am suffering from a number of different types of errors in my MARC data: 1) encoding issues (MARC8 versus UTF-8), 2) syntactical errors (lack of periods, invalid choices of indicators, etc.), 3) incorrect data types (strings entered into fields denoted for integers,

[CODE4LIB] Promo for free issues of PyMag or php|architect

2009-01-23 Thread Jay Luker
Hi gang, On a lark I e-mailed Doug Hellmann, EiC at Python Magazine, to ask about the possibility of a group coupon code for code4lib. Apparently we qualify. :) Here's the deal: 1) anyone who would like 3 free issues of either PyMag [1] or php|architect [2] should first create an account on the

Re: [CODE4LIB] Promo for free issues of PyMag or php|architect

2009-01-23 Thread Jay Luker
AAaaand the footnotes: [1] http://pymag.phparch.com/c/ [2] http://www.phparch.com/ [3] https://store-pymag.phparch.com/c/account/new/account/ On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 12:35 PM, Jay Luker lb...@reallywow.com wrote: Hi gang, On a lark I e-mailed Doug Hellmann, EiC at Python Magazine, to ask

Re: [CODE4LIB] Dutch Code4Lib

2009-01-23 Thread Hamparian,Don
Do you see any opportunities to partner with them for an European meeting? Or is that more trouble then its worth? -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries on behalf of Ross Singer Sent: Thu 1/22/2009 4:06 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Dutch Code4Lib Eric,

[CODE4LIB] My previous email

2009-01-23 Thread Hamparian,Don
My apologies for my previous email. We are thinking about a European-based developers network (Hackathon) meeting in Europe this year. So my first thought was whether we could work together on a European meeting. So apologies for sending it -- I meant to bounce the idea off a few people first,