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Thanks to the list for all of the responses, both on and off list. There are some options that I was previously unaware of, and others that I will revisit. Thanks again! -Tod On Jul 20, 2007, at Jul 20, 7:38 PM, Jason Ronallo wrote: > YAZ comes with yaz-marcdump: http://www.indexdata.dk/yaz/ > This one liner from the man page will do the conversion you want: > > yaz-marcdump -f MARC-8 -t UTF-8 -o marc -l 9=97 marc21.raw > >marc21.utf8.raw > > The -v option writes more information on parsing for those ill- > formed records. > > yaz-marcdump is fast. If you're only doing character encoding > conversion and not making other changes to the records, give > yaz-marcdump a try. > > --Jason Ronallo > > On 7/20/07, Tod Olson <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >> code4lib, >> >> Would any of you have a script for converting MARC records from MARC >> ANSEL to UTF-8 that you would be willing to share? >> >> I have millions of MARC records that I need to convert on a regular >> basis. Our data is too dirty for marc4j, and it's failure mode too >> severe. I understand that MARC::Record and MARC::Charset are more >> forgiving, but my Perl is minimal. >> >> Advice, sample code, pointers and the like are welcome. >> >> >> Tod Olson <[log in to unmask]> >> Systems Librarian >> University of Chicago Library >>