Re: newbie question: isbn -> marc?

2003-08-26 Thread Ed Summers
On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 12:10:52PM -0500, Bill White wrote: > Is there an easy perl way to retrieve a MARC record for a given ISBN? As others have noted this is just what Z39.50 is built for. But if you are in the mood to try an unorthodox approach (at least for the sake of seeing a relatively new

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