Hi, I just finished the first public version of a new Perl-API for handling records in PICA+ format.
http://search.cpan.org/~voj/PICA-Record-0.3/ PICA+ is the internal data format of the Local Library System (LBS) and the Central Library System (CBS) of OCLC PICA. A few weeks ago OCLC bought the remaining parts of the cooperation with the Dutch Pica foundation (Stichting Pica). PICA systems are used in most of German library networks, the National Library of Germany, the National Library of Australia, the French union catalogue ABES, the Dutch union catalogue, and I heard of applications in the UK and South Africa. Looks like PERL4LIB is dominated by MARC-users but maybe someone of these or other PICA-using institutions is reading this list too? PICA::Record is influences by MARC::Record but I used a different architecture for parsing and writing. This is my first CPAN module so helpful feedback is very welcome. By the way I was very suprised that there is a SRU server module (http://search.cpan.org/~bricas/SRU-0.96/lib/SRU.pm) but no SRU client! The minimal SRU client that I wrote in PICA::Record for getting single PICA records is only an experimental sketch: http://search.cpan.org/~voj/PICA-Record-0.3/lib/PICA/SRUSearchParser.pm Has anyone wrote a full SRU client in Perl yet? Greetings, Jakob -- Jakob Voß <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, skype: nichtich Verbundzentrale des GBV (VZG) / Common Library Network Platz der Goettinger Sieben 1, 37073 Göttingen, Germany +49 (0)551 39-10242, http://www.gbv.de
