[Isis-users] MARC file import

[spinaker]

Renate

There are three features to note when importing/exporting marc files 
with Cisis or Winisis, etc using ISO 2709 standard

 1. length of the line, wich in Isis is 80 chars (default) but you can
    modify it using 0 or marc
      * including the end of line control, Isis uses two chars (LF+CR)
        by default or only one char in .mrc files
 2. subfield deliminter, which is *^ * in Isis, but in marc it is a non
    representable ascii char (below 32)  \asc 29 in .mrc
 3. leader bytes transfered in the first 20 bytes of the ISO file, and
    is not accesible neither in Winisis or Pft

Items 2 and 3 are implemented in Winisis, but item 3 is a feature only 
of CISIS

Therefore when you want to get the three items you have to do it using 
MX command,
I'd recommed to use 1660 version or MX, because it gets all the leader bytes

Let's say you want to import a .mrc file, from Library of Congress or 
Gutenberg project,


*mx iso=marc=source.mrc isotag1=3000 gizmo=gizdelim  create=myisisdb now 
-all tell=100*

 1. *iso=marc=source.mrc *is the source data, usually standard marc
    files comes with extension .mrc
 2. *isotag1=3000*       you need this parameter so you move leader
    bytes into conventional field v30xx
 3. *gizmo=gizdelim* this is a gizmo to convert the delimiter \asc32
    into our loved ^ as delimiter

If you don't have this gizmo  you can create it with the following 
instruction

mx null count=1 "proc='a1/1F/a11/hex/a2/^/'" create=gizdelim

Regards
Ernesto Spinak



El 13/03/2013 13:29, Renate Morgenstern escribió:
> Hi,
>
> I want to import the catalogue of Project Gutenberg. It is available 
> as a MARC file. I used the following mx command to convert is to isis.
> mx iso=marc=gutenberg.iso create=dbn now -all
>
> It seems to work ok, but when looking at the data, I notice that the ^ 
> is not converted to isis format. It just shows
>
> 245  14    aTitle  h[electronic resource]  bStatement of responsibility
>
> I see there are options for the import of the MARC file, but I do not 
> know how to use them to get the ^ before the subfield.
>
> Please help me with the correct format.
> Thanks
> Renate
>
>
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