That MFHD.pm code is so helpful! Thanks for sharing.
-Kristina
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
> Mike Rylander
> Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2018 5:49 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] MARC Holdings
>
> Evergreen has Perl code for generating holdings statements from MFHD that
> we use in the serials module. The core MFHD module could certainly be used
> directly (with, perhaps, a namespace change), and the serials module code
> could serve as a guide for how to make use of the MFHD module. The latter
> is, of course, tied to Evergreen's data structures and general architecture, but
> the specific calls made by the serials code to use the MFHD module should be
> relatively transparent to a Perl developer and you can ignore all the
> Evergreen bits. We're dealing with MARC data (MARC::Record objects) at the
> point that we're calling the MFHD module, so that should be translatable to
> one's own code.
>
> See MFHD.pm and the contents of the MFHD directory here:
> http://git.evergreen-ils.org/?p=Evergreen.git;a=tree;f=Open-
> ILS/src/perlmods/lib/OpenILS/Utils
>
> The serials module is implemented by the code here:
> http://git.evergreen-ils.org/?p=Evergreen.git;a=blob;f=Open-
> ILS/src/perlmods/lib/OpenILS/Application/Serial.pm
>
> HTH,
>
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> Mike Rylander
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>
> On Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 4:25 PM, Spurgin, Kristina M.
> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > The MARC libraries cited make it easy to work with MARC in general, but
> unfortunately the Perl and Ruby versions don't come with any help for the
> "interesting" problem of transforming Holdings 853s and 863s into human-
> readablesummary holdings statements (like you'd record in the 866 or 867). (I
> haven't worked with PyMARC).
> >
> > We had the same sort of need you describe years ago and came up with
> some Perl code that clunkily (and in some cases not quite 100% accurately)
> does this. It's not publicly available to point to, but I could send the relevant
> part of that code if you are interested.
> >
> > There has been mild grumbling (from those who pay attention to our serials
> display) about the not-great way this works, and we are working on a new
> discovery interface, so it's on my list to improve the summary holdings
> generation from 853s/863s.
> >
> > I did some searching for code to do this, but didn't find anything in my first
> attempt. If you find something useful that someone else has for this, please do
> share!
> >
> > I've been thinking through a good approach, but don't have anything
> implemented yet.
> >
> > best,
> > Kristina
> >
> > -=-
> > Kristina M. Spurgin -- Library Data Strategist
> > E-Resources & Serials Management, Davis Library
> > University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
> > CB#3938, Davis Library -- Chapel Hill, NC 27514-8890
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> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf
> >> Of Andromeda Yelton
> >> Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2018 4:01 PM
> >> To: [log in to unmask]
> >> Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] MARC Holdings
> >>
> >> Note that if perl isn't your thing there are MARC libraries in
> >> several languages
> >> - python and ruby at least, probably others I don't remember off the
> >> top of my head (since I work in python and ruby, no shade to other
> >> people's languages :). https://github.com/edsu/pymarc ,
> >> https://github.com/ruby-marc/ruby-
> >> marc .
> >>
> >> On Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 12:50 PM, Julie Cole <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >>
> >> > Hello all,
> >> > I'm pretty new to the world of library systems and this is my first post.
> >> >
> >> > Anyone have any experience parsing MARC Holding records (853 and
> >> > 863) into a more readable 866 or 867 format?
> >> > We are wanting to export our holdings from our ILS into our
> >> > Discovery Layer and trying to save some of the money that the ILS
> >> > vendor would charge us to create the records.
> >> >
> >> > The parsing doesn't look fun, so I was hoping someone has some code
> >> > to use as a starting point.
> >> > Also, I'm not sure how clean our data in 853 and 863 is so any
> >> > scripts or advice on gotchas when cleaning that up would be
> appreciated.
> >> > We have about 60,000 holding records.
> >> >
> >> > Thanks,
> >> > Julie.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > Julie Cole
> >> > Library Systems Administrator
> >> > Langara College Library
> >> > Vancouver, BC
> >> >
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> Andromeda Yelton
> >> Senior Software Engineer, MIT Libraries: https://libraries.mit.edu/
> >> President, Library & Information Technology Association:
> >> http://www.lita.org http://andromedayelton.com @ThatAndromeda
> >> <http://twitter.com/ThatAndromeda>
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