all good suggestions so far.....some colleagues have been poking
around davidWalker's excellent shrew project (with code.google.com
timing out for me on some projects right now. strange):
http://code.google.com/p/shrew/
overview of options is also found at III's customer documentation
site, which will require a login/password:
http://csdirect.iii.com/documentation/outputdata.shtml
essentially "Create LISTs" and "Output MARC records using FTS"
i like to pretend i don't work at a III-institution, but if you found
me in IRC or something, i might accidentally paste something in a
window....
cheers,
rc
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 11:39 AM, Kyle Banerjee <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 8:29 AM, Walker, David <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> Hey Eric,
>>
>> Is this an Innovative system you have access to (at Notre Dame)? And do
>> you need to do this one time only, or does it need to be automated and
>> ongoing?
>>
>> If it's a system you have access to, and you only need it once, then you
>> might just have one of the staff there use the Millennium client to get
>> these records. Innovative provides modules (Create Lists and Data Exchange)
>> to search for and export MARC records. There is, of course, documentation
>> for that.
>>
>
> There is also a function in the character based system that allows you to
> export MARC records. This can easily be automated with expect.
>
> If it is ongoing and you only need individual records, you can also ask
> target systems to enable XRECORD for bib records in their system. This will
> enable you to pull up records in XML that contain all the fields in their
> full glory. I strongly recommend against this option as it is one of the
> most insane schemas I've ever seen, it doesn't deal with certain characters
> properly, and you can only harvest by control number.
>
> There is also a syntax that you can use to pull individual records from the
> "staff" view in the public OPAC that gives you a textual representation of
> the MARC record. This can be parsed and converted to a real MARC record.
>
> If you need all records in the system, the expect route through the
> character based system is the best. The other methods can be used in a
> pinch.
>
> I recommend against Data Exchange not because it doesn't work (though the
> last time I checked it didn't work well with large sets), but because you
> can't automate it and it forces you to work though a java gui client.
>
> kyle
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