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From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-boun...@mcn.edu] On Behalf Of
Perian Sully
Sent: 21 March 2007 20:13
To: 'Museum Computer Network Listserv'
Subject: [MCN-L] MARC record conversion
Hi all:
So the pressure is on to import a bunch of MARC records (in Word) into our
shiny new CMS (EMu). I need to convert the MARC Word document into some
format that I can then use to recode the MARC tags into EMu-speak. I've done
this with our old records using Excel, and would like to use
Have you ever worked with MarcEdit? I can't swear that it will do
what you need, but we use the tool a lot to convert records back and
forth between MARC and other formats.
http://oregonstate.edu/~reeset/marcedit/html/index.php
Terry Reese is a very responsive guy, and always seems glad to
We have done this using MARConvert when we needed to import records for our
archival and special collections into TMS. The application is configurable to
allow you to parse or suppress subfields in different ways so that the
resulting data is much easier to work with. If your source format is
P,
Do you know what application these are coming from? MARC is Word?
That's...that's just crazy talk.
To take the best advantage of things like MARCEdit, try to get the
most basic form of the records if possible - preferably plain text.
Especially if they can be exported with MARC
Whoops. To quick on the google finger there...
MARC Perl Module
http://search.cpan.org/~bbirth/MARC-1.07/MARC.pm
P.S. this was also a handy tool from time to time.
MarcMaker/MarcBreaker
http://www.loc.gov/marc/makrbrkr.html
Richard
rjurabn at uiuc.edu
On Mar 21, 2007, at 4:21 PM, Richard
