Eric ranted:
My book catalog excels at inventorying my collection. It does a very
poor
job at recommending/suggesting what book(s) to use. The solution is
not with
more powerful search features, nor is it with bibliographic
instruction. The
solution is lies in better, more robust data, as well
On 12/16/03 8:57 AM, Eric Lease Morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Upon further investigation, it seems that MARC::Batch is not necessarily
> causing my problem with diacritics, instead, the problem may lie in the way I
> am downloading my records using Net::Z3950
Thank you to everybody who
(I'm sending this again, because I think my formatted record may have
gotten messed up in the process of being cut/pasted. My aplogies.)
I don't see how you can get a result for your search if you're using @attr
1=7. 7 is the USE attribute for an ISBN search, and your term is the local
system
I don't see how you can get a result for your search if you're using @attr
1=7. 7 is the USE attribute for an ISBN search, and your term is the local
system number, I think (use attribute=12)
When I do that search (@attr 1=12 3118006) against the LC bib file, using
Net::Z3950 in a program es
On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 03:52:56PM +0100, Tajoli Zeno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> 2) In MARC-8 character set a letter like "è" [e grave] is done with TWO
> bytes one for the sign [the grave accent] and one for the letter [the
> letter e].
>
> 3)In the leader, position 0-4 you have the numbe
On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 03:52:56PM +0100, Tajoli Zeno wrote:
> 1)When you call LOC without a specific character you recive data in MARC-8
> character set.
>
> 2) In MARC-8 character set a letter like "è" [e grave] is done with TWO
> bytes one for the sign [the grave accent] and one for the lett
Hi,
in fact the question is quite complex to explain, and I'm not sure that I
can explain well.
At 14.57 16/12/03, you wrote:
This process works just fine for records that contain no diacritics, but
when diacritics are in the records extra characters end up in my saved
files, like this:
00901
On 12/15/03 8:54 AM, Eric Lease Morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In order to get the MARC records for my "catalog" I have been searching the
> LOC catalog, identifying the record I desire, and using Net::Z3950 to download
> the desired record via the MARC 001 tag. Tastes great. Less filling.
>
