Re: Manuall created records

2003-10-15 Thread Colin Campbell
On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 05:41:54PM +0300, Christoffer Landtman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The character at position 24 which according to Ashley should be a field > terminator instead of blank, did apparently not affect Zebra. I do not > know if this is good or bad (Zebra too sloppy or Ashley

Re: Manuall created records

2003-10-15 Thread Christoffer Landtman
Ed Summers wrote: On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 02:25:55PM +0100, Ashley Sanders wrote: The record isn't strictly correct as the Indicator count and Subfield code length are both blank (character positions 10 and 11.) MARC21 says these should always be set to 2. Also the Lenght of length-of-field, lengt

Re: Manuall created records

2003-10-15 Thread Ashley Sanders
Ed, > Thanks for the details Ashley. The full details (my email had a couple of typos) are at: http://www.loc.gov/marc/bibliographic/ecbdldrd.html (I think the above page uses # to represent a space character.) Ashley. -- Ashley Sanders[EMAIL PROTECTED] COP

Re: Manuall created records

2003-10-15 Thread Ed Summers
My bad, forgot the third argument to substr(). > ## build leader piecemeal > my $ldr = ' ' x 24; > substr( $ldr, 10, 1 ) = 2; > substr( $ldr, 11, 1 ) = 2; > substr( $ldr, 20, 1 ) = 4; > substr( $ldr, 21, 1 ) = 5; > substr( $ldr, 22, 1 ) = 0; > $r->leader( $ldr );

Re: Manuall created records

2003-10-15 Thread Ed Summers
On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 02:25:55PM +0100, Ashley Sanders wrote: > The record isn't strictly correct as the Indicator count and > Subfield code length are both blank (character positions 10 and > 11.) MARC21 says these should always be set to 2. Also the > Lenght of length-of-field, length of starti

Re: Manuall created records

2003-10-15 Thread ALester
I don't see an 008 tag in that record. Perhaps Zebra demands one? And perhaps MARC::Lint should squawk if there isn't one. -- Andy Lester Applications Manager Follett Library Resources [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Manuall created records

2003-10-15 Thread Christoffer Landtman
Ashley Sanders wrote: Christoffer, i.e. Zebra treats the record as being empty. 00154 00085 001001100030009000110050017000201160003724500150005301REALNODE20031015153536.01 aTest Author00aTest Title The record isn't strictly correct as the Indicator count

Re: Manuall created records

2003-10-15 Thread Ashley Sanders
Christoffer, > i.e. Zebra treats the record as being empty. > > 00154 00085 > 001001100030009000110050017000201160003724500150005301REALNODE20031015153536.01 > aTest Author00aTest Title The record isn't strictly correct as the Indicator count and Subfield

Manuall created records

2003-10-15 Thread Christoffer Landtman
Dear all, I want to create records manually, and i am using MARC::Record to do this. Records come out but they are not accepted by e.g. Zebra due to some strange reason. I have been talking with some guys over on the Zebra list, and they seem to be of the oppinion that the fault lies in the MA