Sometimes an idea that’s been staring you in the face has to jump up and down and wave its hands to get attention.<\/p>\n
I was working with Katrin Fischer, Koha’s QA manager, who had just finished putting together a fresh Koha testing environment on her laptop so that she can do patch review during KohaCon’s hackfest. She mentioned wishing that something like MarcEdit were on her laptop so that she could quickly edit some records for testing. While MarcEdit could be run under WINE or Mono or in a Windows virtual machine, inspiration struck me: with a little help, Here’s how — if you start with a file of MARC records, you can convert them to a text file using The resulting text file will look something like this:<\/p>\n To edit the records on the command line, you can use To avoid mangling special characters, it’s helpful to use UTF8 as the character encoding. Not particularly profound, perhaps — and the title of this post is a bit tongue-in-cheek — but I know that this technique will save me a bit of time.<\/p>\nvim<\/code> makes a perfectly good basic MARC editor.<\/p>\nyaz-marcdump<\/code>:<\/p>\n\r\nyaz-marcdump records.mrc > records.txt\r\n<\/pre>\n
\r\n01453cx a22003253 4500\r\n001 412\r\n005 20130407182653.0\r\n009 026380498\r\n035 $a 027861902 $9 xxx\r\n035 $a frBN000018685\r\n035 $a frBN002192923\r\n035 $a FRBNF118639177\r\n100 $a 20130407 frey50\r\n101 $a fre\r\n102 $a FR\r\n103 $a 1879\r\n106 $a 0 $b 1 $c 0\r\n150 $a a\r\n152 $a AFNOR $b CO\r\n210 01 $7 ba0yba0y $9 0 $a France $b Direction des monnaies et m\u00e9dailles\r\n340 $7 ba0yba0y $a 11 Quai de Conti, 75270 Paris Cedex 06\r\n410 01 $7 ba0yba0y $9 # $a France $b Administration des monnaies et m\u00e9dailles\r\n410 01 $7 ba0yba0y $9 # $a France $b Minist\u00e8re de l'\u00e9conomie, des finances et du budget $c 1984-1986 $b Direction des monnaies et m\u00e9dailles\r\n<\/pre>\n
vim<\/code> (or whatever your favorite text editor is). When you’re done, to convert them back to MARC, use<\/p>\n\r\nyaz-marcdump -i line -o marc records.txt > edited-records.mrc\r\n<\/pre>\n
yaz-marcdump<\/code> can also be used to convert a MARC file to UTF8. For example, if the original MARC file uses the MARC-8 encoding, you could do:<\/p>\n\r\nyaz-marcdump -f marc8 -t utf8 records.mrc > records.txt\r\n<\/pre>\n
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