Dealing with bad MARC records
This question is not directly related to Koha itself, but to preparing MARC records for import. Some of the records we've been downloading from Libraries and Archives Canada contain a "5||" (two pipe characters) tag with information about translation. As far as I can tell this is not valid MARC. I developed a little Java program to pre-process records before importing into Koha, using the marc4j library to read MARC. This library refuses to read records containing non-numeric tags, causing us problems. Can anyone recommend any tools for ensuring that a MARC record contains only valid MARC? I could use MarcEdit to 'break' the files, edit out the bad tags and then re'make' them but this is a bit complicated, time-consuming and error-prone. -- Kevin O'Rourke ICT Coordinator, National Teachers' Institute, Kaduna, Nigeria 062 316972
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