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Stacy Pober <[log in to unmask]>
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MarcEdit support in technical and instructional matters <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 19 Feb 2010 16:31:10 -0500
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I've been processing batches of ebook records with MARCedit. These are
supplied by the publishers in most cases and are of varying quality.

When I use MARCValidator, I'm looking primarily for serious errors.
But with most, if not all, of these record sets,  the validator
reports some errors that I would like to ignore, since they do not
seem to affect the way the records are displayed in our catalog.

The reason the "ignorable" error reports are a problem is that there
are so many of them and I have trouble finding the serious errors in
the records.

An example of type of error reports I would like to suppress is:
 "020-Invalid data found in field: 0521779421 (pbk.).  Only [^0-9x] is
valid within this field."
This error is in virtually every ebook MARC record I have processed so far..

Another one that is in virtually every record set is:
"007:  Length appears to be invalid.  Reported length is: 14.
Expected length: 8"

Can I just edit the  marcrules.txt file as outlined below?

I was thinking of doing this:

Under:
    020	R	INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER

Remove the lines:
    valida	[^0-9x]	Valid Characters
    validz	[^0-9x]	Valid Characters

Under:
    007	R	PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION FIXED FIELD--GENERAL INFORMATION

remove the line:
    length	8

Would this be a reasonable plan?



-- 
Stacy Pober
Information Alchemist
Manhattan College Library
Riverdale, NY 10471
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