[Isis-users] MARC file import

[Renate Morgenstern]

Hi Ernesto,

Thanks for sending the instructions for MARC import. The Project
Gutenberg catalogue data contains books in Chinese, Arabic, Russian,
etc. The format is UTF-8. After conversion with cisis, these characters
are not displayed correctly.  What gizmo should be used and how is it
entered?

Regards and thanks

Renate
 
> 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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> > Renate Morgenstern
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Renate Morgenstern
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Fax: 088637518
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