<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 10:33 AM, rohitsingh <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rohit.singh@rsg.co.in">rohit.singh@rsg.co.in</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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how we can create MARC records for books that do not have Library of<br>
Congress Data?<br></div></div></blockquote><div><br>There are many ways to do it, i refer to go with MARC-Record-2.0.2 perl extension [1] <br><br>[1] <a href="http://search.cpan.org/~gmcharlt/MARC-Record-2.0.2/lib/MARC/Doc/Tutorial.pod#NAME">http://search.cpan.org/~gmcharlt/MARC-Record-2.0.2/lib/MARC/Doc/Tutorial.pod#NAME</a><br>
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How we should be able to enter the data in to a CSV file </div></div></blockquote><div><br>Create a spreadsheet file with desired columns like title, author, ISBN, publication, etc. populate it with data obtained from librarian and save it as CSV file.<br>
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programaticaly create MARC records for upload in Koha eventually?<br></div></div></blockquote><div><br>You will have to write a script that uses MARC-Record extension, pass the CSV file as input and it will generate MARC file for you. <br>
<br>Trust me you don't need to be a Perl programmer to do it. The test script i wrote is here <a href="http://pastebin.com/HXYuYfmm">http://pastebin.com/HXYuYfmm</a> <br><br>You may need to alter the code to match the dataset you have.<br>
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<br></div></div></blockquote></div>-- <br>Thanks<br>Sivaji<br>