On Jan 17, 2007, at 2:48 PM, Nathan Vack wrote: > On Jan 17, 2007, at 2:26 PM, Andrew Nagy wrote: > >> Nate, it's pretty easy. Once you dump your records into a giant marc >> file, you can run marc2xml >> (http://search.cpan.org/~kados/MARC-XML-0.82/bin/marc2xml). Then >> run an >> XSLT against the marcxml file to create your SOLR xml docs. > > Unless I'm totally, hugely mistaken, MARC doesn't say anything about > holdings data, right? If I want to facet on that, would it make more > sense to add holdings data to the MARC XML data, or keep separate xml > files for holdings that reference the item data? > > In a lot of cases, location data might not be a hugely important > facet; at Madison, we have something like 42 libraries spread thinly > across campus (gah!) -- each with different loan policies -- as well > as a few request-only storage facilities. So there's a lot of "Stuff > I Can't Check Out" and a lot of "Stuff I'll Need To Wait For" in our > collection. Actually, there is a MARC format for holdings data, http://www.loc.gov/marc/holdings/echdhome.html And a number of the 8XX fields in the bib record can contain holdings data: http://www.loc.gov/marc/bibliographic/ecbdhold.html So it may not be totally unnatural to put your holdings-related facet info into the MARC XML alongside the bib data. (Though you may want to think about how to handle long serials runs.) I would think that the big question is how (whether?) Voyager exports holdings data. Tod Olson <[log in to unmask]> Programmer/Analyst University of Chicago Library