[Isis-users] MARC file import

[Andrew Buxton]

Dear Ernesto

I should probably know this but is there a version of MX for 64-bit Windows?  I can no longer run the version I have!

Andrew
 
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Andrew Buxton
Lewes, East Sussex, UK


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 From: spinaker <spinaker at adinet.com.uy>
To: isis-users at iccisis.org 
Sent: Wednesday, 13 March 2013, 21:40
Subject: Re: [Isis-users] MARC file import
 

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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