Re: NACO Normalization and Text::Normalize

2003-08-27 Thread Ed Summers
On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 09:15:25AM -0300, Brian Cassidy wrote: > * normalize() > > inputs: either a MARC::Record object or a string. This should probably > accept an arbitrary number of inputs so, you can do > > my @normrecs = normalize( @records ); > > rather than > > my @normrecs; > foreach m

RE: NACO Normalization and Text::Normalize

2003-08-27 Thread Houghton,Andrew
From: Brian Cassidy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: NACO Normalization and Text::Normalize > * normalize() > > inputs: either a MARC::Record object or a string. This should probably > accept an arbitrary number of inputs so, you can do > * compare() > > inputs: eithe

RE: NACO Normalization and Text::Normalize

2003-08-27 Thread Brian Cassidy
Hi Ed, > I think this is a great idea. At first I was thinking that it would be > nice to be able to pass your normalize() function a MARC::Record object, > which would magically normalize all the relevant fields (like a good > cataloger). This could be a subclass MARC::Record::NACO which adds

Re: NACO Normalization and Text::Normalize

2003-08-26 Thread Ed Summers
Hi Brian: thanks for writing, On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 04:29:37PM -0300, Brian Cassidy wrote: > As part of a previous project I was importing MARC records into an RDBMS > structure. In order to facilitate better searching, it was suggested to > me that I do some normalization on my data and that NA

RE: NACO Normalization and Text::Normalize

2003-08-26 Thread Brian Cassidy
> -Original Message- > > > I now wonder if this code would have greater utility as a module on > > CPAN. > > Yes, please! (You're not BRICAS on cpan.org, are you?) Yes, I am BRICAS on CPAN...is that a bad thing? :) > I would recommend putting it in the MARC::* namespace, since it's > s

Re: NACO Normalization and Text::Normalize

2003-08-25 Thread Paul Hoffman
On Monday, August 25, 2003, at 03:29 PM, Brian Cassidy wrote: The basis for this message is to get a feeling whether or not I should submit a module that will do NACO normalization (http://lcweb.loc.gov/catdir/pcc/naco/normrule.html) to CPAN. [...] So, away I went and came back with normalize() s

NACO Normalization and Text::Normalize

2003-08-25 Thread Brian Cassidy
Hi All, The basis for this message is to get a feeling whether or not I should submit a module that will do NACO normalization (http://lcweb.loc.gov/catdir/pcc/naco/normrule.html) to CPAN. As part of a previous project I was importing MARC records into an RDBMS structure. In order to facilitate b