Yes, use marc-in-json. We should add read support as well while we're at it.

On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 5:57 AM, Ed Summers <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Martin Czygan recently added JSON support to pymarc [1]. Before this
> gets rolled into a release I was wondering if it might make sense to
> bring the implementation in line with Ross Singer's proposed JSON
> serialization for MARC [2]. After quickly looking around it seems to
> be what got implemented in ruby-marc [3] and PHP's File_MARC [4]. It
> also looked like there was a MARC::Record branch [5] for doing
> something similar, but I'm not sure if that has been released yet.
>
> It seems like a no-brainer to bring it in line, but I thought I'd ask
> since I haven't been following the conversation closely.
>
> //Ed
>
> [1] https://github.com/edsu/pymarc/commit/245ea6d7bceaec7215abe788d61a0b34a6cd849e
> [2] http://dilettantes.code4lib.org/blog/2010/09/a-proposal-to-serialize-marc-in-json/
> [3] https://github.com/ruby-marc/ruby-marc/blob/master/lib/marc/record.rb#L227
> [4] http://pear.php.net/package/File_MARC/docs/latest/File_MARC/File_MARC_Record.html#methodtoJSON
> [5] http://marcpm.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=marcpm/marcpm;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/marc-json