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I've never actually worked with the raw holdings records, and because I assume everyone is just like me, I imagine other's haven't, either. I now working with the summary holdings information as a text string is a nightmare. Maybe you could throw up some "given this, it should produce that" data somewhere for folks to look at? If nothing else, it'll force you to start a test suite :-) On Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 4:25 PM, Spurgin, Kristina M. < [log in to unmask]> wrote: > The MARC libraries cited make it easy to work with MARC in general, but > unfortunately the Perl and Ruby versions don't come with any help for the > "interesting" problem of transforming Holdings 853s and 863s into > human-readablesummary holdings statements (like you'd record in the 866 or > 867). (I haven't worked with PyMARC). > > We had the same sort of need you describe years ago and came up with some > Perl code that clunkily (and in some cases not quite 100% accurately) does > this. It's not publicly available to point to, but I could send the > relevant part of that code if you are interested. > > There has been mild grumbling (from those who pay attention to our serials > display) about the not-great way this works, and we are working on a new > discovery interface, so it's on my list to improve the summary holdings > generation from 853s/863s. > > I did some searching for code to do this, but didn't find anything in my > first attempt. If you find something useful that someone else has for this, > please do share! > > I've been thinking through a good approach, but don't have anything > implemented yet. > > best, > Kristina > > -=- > Kristina M. Spurgin -- Library Data Strategist > E-Resources & Serials Management, Davis Library > University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill > CB#3938, Davis Library -- Chapel Hill, NC 27514-8890 > 919-962-3825 -- [log in to unmask] > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of > > Andromeda Yelton > > Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2018 4:01 PM > > To: [log in to unmask] > > Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] MARC Holdings > > > > Note that if perl isn't your thing there are MARC libraries in several > languages > > - python and ruby at least, probably others I don't remember off the top > of my > > head (since I work in python and ruby, no shade to other people's > languages > > :). https://github.com/edsu/pymarc , https://github.com/ruby-marc/ruby- > > marc . > > > > On Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 12:50 PM, Julie Cole <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > > > > Hello all, > > > I'm pretty new to the world of library systems and this is my first > post. > > > > > > Anyone have any experience parsing MARC Holding records (853 and 863) > > > into a more readable 866 or 867 format? > > > We are wanting to export our holdings from our ILS into our Discovery > > > Layer and trying to save some of the money that the ILS vendor would > > > charge us to create the records. > > > > > > The parsing doesn't look fun, so I was hoping someone has some code to > > > use as a starting point. > > > Also, I'm not sure how clean our data in 853 and 863 is so any scripts > > > or advice on gotchas when cleaning that up would be appreciated. > > > We have about 60,000 holding records. > > > > > > Thanks, > > > Julie. > > > > > > > > > Julie Cole > > > Library Systems Administrator > > > Langara College Library > > > Vancouver, BC > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Andromeda Yelton > > Senior Software Engineer, MIT Libraries: https://libraries.mit.edu/ > President, > > Library & Information Technology Association: http://www.lita.org > > http://andromedayelton.com @ThatAndromeda > > <http://twitter.com/ThatAndromeda> > -- Bill Dueber Library Systems Programmer University of Michigan Library