Thanks to the list for all of the responses, both on and off list.
There are some options that I was previously unaware of, and others
that I will revisit. Thanks again!
-Tod
On Jul 20, 2007, at Jul 20, 7:38 PM, Jason Ronallo wrote:
YAZ comes with yaz-marcdump: http://www.indexdata.dk/yaz/
This one liner from the man page will do the conversion you want:
yaz-marcdump -f MARC-8 -t UTF-8 -o marc -l 9=97 marc21.raw
>marc21.utf8.raw
The -v option writes more information on parsing for those ill-
formed records.
yaz-marcdump is fast. If you're only doing character encoding
conversion and not making other changes to the records, give
yaz-marcdump a try.
--Jason Ronallo
On 7/20/07, Tod Olson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
code4lib,
Would any of you have a script for converting MARC records from MARC
ANSEL to UTF-8 that you would be willing to share?
I have millions of MARC records that I need to convert on a regular
basis. Our data is too dirty for marc4j, and it's failure mode too
severe. I understand that MARC::Record and MARC::Charset are more
forgiving, but my Perl is minimal.
Advice, sample code, pointers and the like are welcome.
Tod Olson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Systems Librarian
University of Chicago Library
