The latest version of pymarc can both read and write marc-in-json.  The
reading is not extremely well tested, though.

cheers,

AC


On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 10:21 AM, Adam Constabaris <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> The latest version of pymarc can both read and write marc-in-json.  The
> reading is not extremely well tested, though.
>
> cheers,
>
> AC
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 10:02 AM, Bill Dueber <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> I can see where you might think that "no progress has been made" because
>> the only real document of the format is that old, old blog post.
>>
>> The problem, however, is not a lack of progress but a lack of
>> documentation
>> of that progress. File_MARC (PHP), MARC::Record (perl), ruby-marc (ruby)
>> and marc4j (java) will all deal, to one extent or another, either with the
>> JSON directly or with a hash/map data structure that maps directly to that
>> JSON structure.
>>
>> [BTW, can anyone summarize the state of pymarc wrt marc-in-json?]
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 5:09 AM, dasos ili <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>> > It is exactly three years back, and no real progress has been made
>> > concerning  this proposal to serialize MARC in JSON:
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> http://dilettantes.code4lib.org/blog/2010/09/a-proposal-to-serialize-marc-in-json/
>> >
>> >
>> > Meanwhile new tools for searching and retrieving records have come in,
>> > such as Solr and Elasticsearch. Any ideas on how one could alter (or
>> > propose a new format) more suited to the mechanisms of these two search
>> > platforms?
>> >
>> > Any example implemantations would be also really appreciated,
>> >
>> > thank you in advance
>> >
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Bill Dueber
>> Library Systems Programmer
>> University of Michigan Library
>>
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