Nathan,
Ed Summers' ruby-marc is an excellent way to get Voyager's generally
pretty crappy MARC batch export into XML.
http://www.textualize.com/ruby_marc
Use the MARC::ForgivingReader and then you output everything using
MARC::XMLWriter.
For a collection the size of yours it's going to take a long while, though.
-Ross.
On 1/17/07, Nathan Vack <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Hey cats,
>
> I'm starting to think (very excitedly) about the Lucene session, and
> realized that I'd better get our data into an XML form, so I can do
> interesting things with it.
>
> Anyone here have experience (or code I could steal) dumping data from
> Voyager into... anything? I'm happy working in PHP, Java, Ruby, or
> perl -- though happiest, probably, in Ruby.
>
> We're rolling Voyager 6.2.
>
> Thanks!
> -Nate
> UW - Madison
>
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