On 3/9/07, Darla Grediagin <dgrediagin@bssd.org> wrote:
MarcEdit does only work on windows at this point. If you are a Mac Only organization (I work for one, I don't make the rules) It was well worth the 500 dollars I spent on a pc laptop to use this program.
Thanks for the feedback. The command line version of MARCEdit to break/make records works just fine under Linux with mono, but I eschew mono and try to use open source when possible. For a short time I used yaz-marcdump to convert back and forth between raw MARC and line format, but recently I wrote a little script in perl using a MARC::File module to convert records to a modified MARCMaker format for editing. This way I can script a lot of the editing on batches. I edit all my records outside of Koha before import including adding holdings information. That's not really the problem. What I'm wondering is if I have a record for an item in the system already, can I edit the record outside of Koha and then overlay my edited record over top of the one already in the system. I'm particularly wondering about this for batch editing and global changes. If this is possible with bulkmarcimport.pl, what is matched on to decide what record gets overlayed? Many of the books I'm cataloging are too old to have ISBN/ISSN/LCCN. --Jason