Re: [CODE4LIB] OCoLC conversion scripts?

Based on https://www.oclc.org/batchload/controlnumber.en.html, this ruby function should get the job done: def oclc_normalize oclc oclc_num = oclc.gsub(/\D/, '').to_i.to_s case oclc_num.length when 1..8 "ocm" + "%08d" % oclc_num when 9 "ocn" + oclc_num else "on" + oclc_num

Re: [CODE4LIB] OCoLC conversion scripts?

Publishing the algorithm would be useful, so we can do checking / normalisation in the Wikipedia authority control scripts (in Lua). Cheers Stuart On Saturday, September 5, 2015, Tom Misilo wrote: > Hi, > > I was wondering if anyone knows of any scripts that would convert >

[CODE4LIB] OCoLC conversion scripts?

Hi, I was wondering if anyone knows of any scripts that would convert (OCoLC)3851870 to ocm0385170 for all the different ocm, ocn, ... combinations. I am trying to clean up some of our data that had an internal ID in the 001 and want to put the 035$a value into the 001. Thanks, Tom