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Date: | 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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