[Isis-users] - tRe: MARC file import - tehcnical note
Edwin Hübner
edwin.hubner at gmail.com
Sun Mar 17 21:03:46 CET 2013
Dear Ernesto,
Thank you for the very useful information for who is working with MARC in
ABCD. One more question: how to handle the subfiled codes? I think we need a
gizmo to convert them, but how should this gismo be created, or is it
available?
Thanks,
Edwin
2013/3/17 spinaker <spinaker em adinet.com.uy>
> Edwin
>
> Let me ellaborate a little more about these two weird parameters
>
> *isotag1*=<number> we use by convention 3000, but you could use 1000,
> or 9000, or any free base number
> means that a few meaningful bytes in the leader will be transfered as
> conventional isis fields
> ex. Leader byte 05 will be v3005
> Leader byte 18 will be v3018
>
> *outisotag1*=<number> we use by convention 3000
> means that you have in your records a set of field begining with this base
> number that will be placed into the leader
> ex. field v3005 will be exported as Ldr/05
> field v3018 will be exported as Ldr/18
>
> Regards
> Ernesto Spinak
>
>
> El 17/03/2013 16:02, spinaker escribió:
>
> Edwin
>
> You can do with MX both ways, exportIimport from CDS/ISIS to MARC
> provided you have in place the fields that have to be converted into the
> leader
>
> MARC --> ISIS
> *mx iso=marc=source.mrc isotag1=3000 create=dbisis ...*
>
> and you can do the reverse way (you have your leader bytes as 30xx fields)
>
> ISIS --> MARC
> *mx dbisis iso=marc=export.mrc outisotag1=3000* ...
>
> Note that the use in IsisMarc of the fileds v30xx for those leader bytes
> was not by chance, they were purposely defined
>
>
> Regards
> Ernesto
>
>
>
>
> El 17/03/2013 14:17, Edwin Hübner escribió:
>
> Hi,
> Of course IsisMarc is a good tool to import and export MARC ISO-2709 files
> , but I wonder if mx also is able to export CDS/ISIS records to MARC ISO-2709
> file, ie, the reverse process suggested by Ernesto.
> Regards,
> Edwin
>
> 2013/3/13 Piet De Keyser <piet.dekeyser em khleuven.be>
>
>> Renate,
>>
>> Of course Ernesto's answer is, as always, correct - as he is the expert
>> on CISIS. For non techis an easy way to convert such a MARC file is simply
>> to import it into ISISMARC.
>>
>> Piet de Keyser
>> Leuven University College
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------
>> *Van:* isis-users-bounces em iccisis.org [isis-users-bounces em iccisis.org]
>> namens spinaker [spinaker em adinet.com.uy]
>> *Verzonden:* woensdag 13 maart 2013 22:40
>> *Aan:* isis-users em iccisis.org
>> *Onderwerp:* 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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>>
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>> Cell: +264 81 2910284
>> Fax: 088637518
>> Windhoek, Namibia
>>
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