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Page 1: What MarcEdit can do for youWhat MarcEdit can do for you Author Reynolds, Claudia Created Date 8/24/2018 9:25:35 AM

IGBIS Workshop 2018

Presenter: Claudia Reynolds (University of Johannesburg)

What MarcEdit can

do for you

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What is MarcEdit?

• MarcEdit is a metadata editing programme used primarily to create and manipulate MARC records. Originally developed by Terry Reese in 1999.

• Freeware – download from Internethttp://marcedit.reeset.net/downloads

• Regular updates

• Very active Listserv

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Where do Marc records come from?

• Cataloguing agencies like OCLC/Skyriver, vendors, websites, exported from own LMS Example:

• .mrk (mnemonic file read by MarcEdit)• .mrc (binary format to be uploaded into your library system)

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(Use Marcbreaker to convert .txt, .dat files into tabulated .mrk file)

• MarcEdit can convert a variety of other formats into marc

(Use Delimited Text Translator to convert Excel into marc)

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General editing functions

• Sort

• Find and replace• Find and replace in a specific field = Edit field

• Add a field• Add a field (Conditional)

• Delete a field• Delete a field (Conditional)

• Change upper / lower case

• etc.

• TASK MANAGER = create a re-usable list of edit functions

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Change case

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Task manager

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Generate call number & subject headings

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MARC Validator

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• Databases supporting the OAI-PMH (Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting) provide metadata records via their base URL

• Find the base URL on the website, on www.openarchives.org (mainly periodicals) or www.opendoar.org(institutional repositories), or contact the database administrators.

Harvest OAI records Examples:

https://openarchives.org/Register/BrowseSites/

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RDA helper or via MarcEditor

• Inserts certainRDA fields & codes

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Result (video):

before after

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How to output catalogue records to a marc file :

SIERRA library system

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Z39.50/SRU Client or via MarcEditor

• Pulls in records from external databases

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Some other Z39.50 servers for Open Access content: https://www.indexdata.com/resources/open-content/

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Other URL tools

• Generate record from URL (note: returns minimal/incomplete data)

• URL checker(Cannot check if your institutionhas access, just checks if it is a valid URL)

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MARCNext : the future