Do the eISBNs supplied in 020 $z have qualifiers? Or perhaps they're the only ones that _don't_ have qualifiers?
A regex could target either of those conditions.
Sent from my mobile -- please excuse brevity and typos.
On Feb 21, 2013, at 8:00 AM, "Heidi P Frank" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Thanks Terry - that's kinda what I figured :)
>
> Right now, the $a and $z dups are in separate 020 fields, so maybe
> we'll try to rethink this another way.
>
> cheers,
> heidi
>
> Heidi Frank
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> On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 4:17 AM, Reese, Terry
> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> The fact that these elements are in different subfields takes this outside
>> of MarcEdit’s normal deduping field function. If you were just looking to
>> remove duplicate $a’s or $z’s you could use the tool. But unfortunately,
>> the tool doesn’t search across subfields that way -- unless...would these be
>> separate 020 fields or would they be $a’s that were appended to an existing
>> 020 with a duplicate $z? If that was the case, I might be able to give you
>> a regular expression that could evaluate the line, comparing two subfields.
>>
>> --tr
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>> From: Heidi P Frank
>> Sent: February 20, 2013 2:09 PM
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: [MARCEDIT-L] de-duping ISBN fields
>>
>> Hi everyone,
>> My colleague is working with a set of ebook records that contain 020
>> fields with a mixture of ISBNs for both the print and the ebook
>> versions that are always in subfield $z regardless of the format. The
>> 856 fields contain the ISBN for the ebook format, which she wants to
>> place in an 020 $a, however, she needs to then de-dup and remove any
>> 020 $z fields having the same ISBN number.
>>
>> She's worked out how to get the ISBN from the 856 field to an 020 $a
>> field (by copying the 856 to an 020 and then deleting the extraneous
>> URL info), but we're not sure now whether we can remove any 020 fields
>> that match the new one.
>>
>> any ideas??
>>
>> thanks much!
>> heidi
>>
>> Heidi Frank
>> Electronic Resources & Special Formats Cataloger
>> New York University Libraries
>> Knowledge Access & Resources Management Services
>> 20 Cooper Square, 3rd Floor
>> New York, NY 10003
>> 212-998-2499 (office)
>> 212-995-4366 (fax)
>> [log in to unmask]
>> Skype: hfrank71
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