Hi Jason,

> I started a page on the wiki:
> http://wiki.code4lib.org/index.php/Parsing_Library_Data

Cool idea.  I added a link under the Title section to a small code snippet for parsing titles to determine the number of nonfiling characters (for when converting non-MARC data to MARC).

-- Michael

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
> Thomale, Jason
> Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2011 4:22 PM
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> Subject: [CODE4LIB] techniques for parsing legacy library data
> 
> Hey all,
> 
> I <3 today's LCC thread, and ones like it.
> 
> It seems like there's a ton of knowledge out there (buried) about parsing
> various pieces of library data like this, but I haven't really seen a
> concerted effort to log/organize this info in one place. It seems like
> such a thing could be a useful resource for the Code4lib community?
> (Because I would find it terribly useful.)
> 
> I started a page on the wiki:
> http://wiki.code4lib.org/index.php/Parsing_Library_Data
> 
> It's skeletal, but the idea is to collect/share any & all info about
> parsing library data--code, techniques, methods, problems, general
> discussion--to make it a little easier to build off of each other.
> 
> If something like this already exists, I'd love to know about it (and in
> that case this wiki page would be redundant). Otherwise--yeah, it would be
> great if you guys could go in and add links to relevant articles/work/blog
> postings--especially if this is a resource you'd find useful, too. Or make
> some suggestions, and I'll take care of it...
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Jason Thomale
> Resource Discovery Systems Librarian
> University of North Texas Libraries