machine-readable cataloging
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How do I enable the display of the “Expanded Marc View” tab when viewing a library catalog item in Koha's OPAC?
I was curious as to how I enable the display of the "Expanded Marc View" tab when viewing a library catalog item in OPAC? I already have "normal View", "MARC View" and "ISBD View" enabled by default.
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How to view MARC files in a human readable way?
How does one view MARC files in a human readable way?
What characteristics should I look for in a tool that would facilitate the interpretation of MARC records?
Having to look up every field in ...
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What types of publication dates exist?
I want to generate a statistic of number of publications by year from a set of bibliographic records (internal PICA+ format, but I could convert for instance to MARC2 or MODS). Surprisingly several ...
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How do I combine a folder of .MRC files into one .MRC using the command line or MARCEDIT?
I need to deliver a set of MARC files to a librarian and know that the librarian would rather receive one .MRC file with all records included rather than a zipped folder of .mrc files.
I know there ...
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Where do I find example data for MARC records to import into Koha?
I'm working in a online library and I need put some example Marc records in my Koha to make a demo. I downloaded some MARC records (.mrc, .mrk) but when I import them, there are no matching fields and ...
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How to detect invalid permutations of MARC fields, subfield, and indicator
I'm working on a web app that allows users to run checks on each MARC record in a MARC batch file, so they can quickly assess the quality of those records. The idea is when batches of records are ...
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Applications to browse MARC (maybe with statistics)?
I am looking for apps to view and browse MARC records. I'm a programmer so I usually interact with MARC via marc4j or pymarc and the like. But sometimes, I'd like to have a GUI, which could show me ...
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How does the Rule of Three work?
I have seen so many contradictory explanations of the Rule of Three that I'm ready to tear out my hair. For each of the faux-authorship cases below, what goes in a 1xx field, what in a 7xx, and what ...
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What is the purpose of the 490 and 8xx
What is the purpose of the 490 tag if you create an 8xx? Can you just enter an 8xx and NOT enter a 490?
(Assuming your ILS indexes both)
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How valuable is it to talk about “non-MARC” data?
Does your institution talk about managing non-MARC data? If it does, what does it mean to you? Shouldn't we talk about this data in more concrete terms?
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What MARC tags are appropriate for linking bibliographic records of an adaptation (e.g. film) to its source?
My cataloging class (back in the day) focused mainly on describing individual items rather than the relationships among them. I'm curious about the state of the art when it comes to related items. Let ...
