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Evan Lurie <[log in to unmask]>
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MarcEdit support in technical and instructional matters <[log in to unmask]>
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Sat, 6 Aug 2011 16:27:01 -0400
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Hi,

I find myself cleaning up an old library catalog and standardizing it to LoC field 
entries.  Of course MarcEdit has been incredibly useful retrieving LoC data by 
ISBN and merging records based on matching 020 fields.

Sometimes the 020 fields don't match, in which case I'm having a tough time 
merging the records.  Sometimes this is attributable to typos in the ISBN.  Fair 
enough.  If the author or title is sufficiently unique, I can retrieve LoC records 
based on those values, but am them puzzled about how to use MarcEdit to 
automate the merge.  Does MarcEdit support merges on anything other than 
001/010/020/021/035?  How do I use the Marc21 protocol at the bottom of 
the drop down on the merge utility?

Sometimes the 020 field doesn't match b/c the current catalog stores more 
than one ISBN in 020 and separates them with a semi-colon.  What regular 
expression might I use to parse the first ISBN and store that in 020 for 
matching purposes (I'll temporarily record 020 in 021 and then restore after 
merging)?

More generally, when extracting records using the z39.50 client, is there a 
way to batch retrieve records based on matches of author AND title?

Thanks for your help.

Evan

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