On Fri, 2010-01-15 at 12:25 -0500, Janet Schrader wrote: > Hi Jason, > > What are the criteria for bib records to be migrated? What fields are > required? Is there documentation on this that you could send me? > > If a record has MARC fields for ISBN, author, title, imprint would that be > sufficient? We can globally update non-MARC records to change the fields to > MARC tags.
Hi Janet: I have no experience with III, but in general, if you have that data in a reasonably well-defined format, it wouldn't be too difficult for someone to go through and generate MARC records from non-MARC records using a script built on something like MARC::Record / MARC::File::XML (Perl), File_MARC (PHP), pymarc (Python), or the like, mapping title to 245a, author to 100a, ISBN to 022a, and imprint to 260a. You could get fancier and try to break it up into subfields if you have the appropriate cues in the data. They won't be great MARC records, because you'll have to go with reasonable defaults for things like fixed fields, but they will be comparable to what you have now for those records. And someone could always come along later and use copy-cataloging via z39.50 to overlay more complete records once you're up and running. Dan
