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Hi, On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 3:19 PM, Dana Jemison <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > I'm looking for a MARC validation tool (either binary or XML MARC) to > identify formatting and structural errors in MARC records, which can be > run in a Unix environment. Does anyone know of such a tool, or has > anyone built something like this which they'd be willing to share? The Perl module MARC::Lint comes with a script called marclint that can be used to produce a report of errors in MARC21 records. Here's an example of the kind of output it produces: $ marclint /tmp/bad.mrc The collected works of Jane Doe, book 1 Invalid record length in record 1: Leader says 00176 bytes but it's actually 166 Invalid length in directory for tag 245 in record 1 field does not end in end of field character in tag 245 in record 1 100: Indicator 1 must be 0, 1 or 3 but it's " " 245: Indicator 1 must be 0 or 1 but it's " " 245: Indicator 2 must be 0 thru 9 but it's " " 245: Must end with . (period). 245: Non-filing indicator is non-numeric 245: First word, the, may be an article, check 2nd indicator ( ). The module can be install from CPAN, of course, and on a Debian or Ubuntu box, by running apt-get install libmarc-lint-perl. Regards, Galen -- Galen Charlton Manager of Implementation Equinox Software, Inc. / The Open Source Experts email: [log in to unmask] direct: +1 770-709-5581 cell: +1 404-984-4366 skype: gmcharlt web: http://www.esilibrary.com/ Supporting Koha and Evergreen: http://koha-community.org & http://evergreen-ils.org