Monday, November 10, 2008

Generating MARC with MarcEdit

It has been a trend to harvest metadata from available online resources. Since OAI was adopted by most of data providers, it has facilitated libraries to share metadata . However, sometimes you probably want to integrate a few websites into the library cataloging database, you could do this easily with MarcEdit.

MarcEdit could process the conversion between MARC and XML metadata, it could do the following transformation:
  • MARC→ Dublin Core XML
  • MARC→ MARCXML
Other conversions could be possible, but the above transformations are commonly used by librarians. Users can also edit those marc records with MarcEdit, and batch load them into your intergrating library system. If users could make use of some macros, the bacth editing will be much easier. People who are intertested in this could look at the sample at Miller Library.

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