Re: Newbie question

2005-11-14 Thread Edward Summers
On Nov 14, 2005, at 10:15 AM, Ed Sanchez wrote: Would you point me in the right direction for help? I'd recommend you upgrade to using MARC::Record and co. One advantage to doing so is that you can use the no_strict() method on a MARC::Batch object for ignoring errors like this. Of course y

Re: newbie question: isbn -> marc?

2003-09-11 Thread Bill White
On Tue Aug 26 2003 at 16:15, Ed Summers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 12:10:52PM -0500, Bill White wrote: >> Is there an easy perl way to retrieve a MARC record for a given ISBN? > > As others have noted this is just what Z39.50 is built for. But if > you are in the mood to t

Re: newbie question: isbn -> marc?

2003-09-03 Thread Ed Summers
On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 12:10:52PM -0500, Bill White wrote: > Is there an easy perl way to retrieve a MARC record for a given ISBN? This is way late at this point, but I totally forgot about Chris Biemesderfer's example [1] of using MARC::Record and Net::Z3950 to retrieve a MARC record by ISBN. /

Re: newbie question: isbn -> marc?

2003-08-26 Thread Ed Summers
On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 12:10:52PM -0500, Bill White wrote: > Is there an easy perl way to retrieve a MARC record for a given ISBN? As others have noted this is just what Z39.50 is built for. But if you are in the mood to try an unorthodox approach (at least for the sake of seeing a relatively new

Re: newbie question: isbn -> marc?

2003-08-22 Thread Paul Hoffman
On Friday, August 22, 2003, at 03:29 AM, Ashley Sanders wrote: Have you seen the perl binding of Zoom; an easy to use perl interface to z39.50: http://zoom.z3950.org/bind/perl/index.html Yes, thanks. (Is Net::Z3950 still the only Perl binding to [i.e., implementation of] ZOOM?) Paul. -- P

Re: newbie question: isbn -> marc?

2003-08-22 Thread Ashley Sanders
Paul, > FWIW, I'm working on a Perl module that makes bib-1 searching via > Z39.50 a bit simpler: > > use Zoose; > $z = Zoose->new( > 'host' => $host, > 'port' => $port, > ... > ); > $rs = $z->search('isbn' => $isbn); > foreach my $i (1..$rs->count) { > $book =

RE: newbie question: isbn -> marc?

2003-08-21 Thread Christensen, David A. (CHT)
Hi Bill, For what it's worth feel free to use our site: http://maplin.gov.mb.ca It will let you grab individual MARC records. -David > -Original Message- > From: Bill White [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 2003-Aug-21 12:11 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: newbie ques

Re: newbie question: isbn -> marc?

2003-08-21 Thread Paul Hoffman
On Thursday, August 21, 2003, at 02:57 PM, Bill White wrote: Newbieness continues... I've downloaded & installed Net::Z3950 but it looks like I can't get through the firewall here at work. Is there a way to use a proxy with this module? Well, I'm pretty clueless when it comes to proxies, but goo

RE: newbie question: isbn -> marc?

2003-08-21 Thread Bigwood, David
Bill, John Voth has made some tools he created available. The first program takes a raw scan of a book's EAN (ie:9781575212784) and converts it into the ISBN (ie:1575212781). The second program takes a list of ISBN's and attempts to retrieve the MARC record for each title from the LoC. They are

Re: newbie question: isbn -> marc?

2003-08-21 Thread Bill White
On Thu Aug 21 2003 at 13:31, Paul Hoffman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Thursday, August 21, 2003, at 01:10 PM, Bill White wrote: > >> Is there an easy perl way to retrieve a MARC record for a given ISBN? > > Yes, using Z39.50! :-) Newbieness continues... I've downloaded & installed Net::Z3950

Re: newbie question: isbn -> marc?

2003-08-21 Thread Paul Hoffman
On Thursday, August 21, 2003, at 01:10 PM, Bill White wrote: Is there an easy perl way to retrieve a MARC record for a given ISBN? Yes, using Z39.50! :-) With Net::Z3950 you can do something like this (untested, error handling omitted): use Net::Z3950; my %options = ( 'databaseName'