> From: Joshua Ferraro [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 19 May, 2006 13:40 > To: Edward Summers > Cc: perl4lib > Subject: Re: MARC Records, XML, and encoding > > Hi all, > > Here is an OCLC record: > > http://liblime.com/public/oclc1.dat > > So ... any suggestions for tracking down this problem? ... > and what about ideas for handling these records 'in the wild' > that have some encoding problems... what do other MARC libraries do?
I was curious about whether this record was bad in WorldCat and since I have access to WorldCat, I looked at the record. There appears to be one diacritic in this record, a MARC-8 E2, combining acute, which has "e" as its base character. I exported the record from WorldCat and it does in fact have an E2 in it. However, the size of the record, above, and the one I exported from OCLC Connexion are different. Above, 1442 bytes vs. OCLC 1387. The 005's are, above 20060516100102.0 vs. OCLC 20060519162028.0. So it's not surprising that the sizes are different. When I use MarcView on both records it doesn't complain and looking at both records side-by-side it appears that there are very minor edits. I suspect that the record was edited on OCLC, then exported, where as I just exported the record without making any edits. This doesn't solve your issue, but I don't think the issue is with the actual content of the record. Andy. Andrew Houghton, OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. http://www.oclc.org/about/ http://www.oclc.org/research/staff/houghton.htm
