IGBIS Workshop 2018
Presenter: Claudia Reynolds (University of Johannesburg)
What MarcEdit can
do for you
What is MarcEdit?
• MarcEdit is a metadata editing programme used primarily to create and manipulate MARC records. Originally developed by Terry Reese in 1999.
• Freeware – download from Internethttp://marcedit.reeset.net/downloads
• Regular updates
• Very active Listserv
Where do Marc records come from?
• Cataloguing agencies like OCLC/Skyriver, vendors, websites, exported from own LMS Example:
• .mrk (mnemonic file read by MarcEdit)• .mrc (binary format to be uploaded into your library system)
(Use Marcbreaker to convert .txt, .dat files into tabulated .mrk file)
• MarcEdit can convert a variety of other formats into marc
(Use Delimited Text Translator to convert Excel into marc)
General editing functions
• Sort
• Find and replace• Find and replace in a specific field = Edit field
• Add a field• Add a field (Conditional)
• Delete a field• Delete a field (Conditional)
• Change upper / lower case
• etc.
• TASK MANAGER = create a re-usable list of edit functions
Change case
Task manager
Generate call number & subject headings
MARC Validator
• Databases supporting the OAI-PMH (Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting) provide metadata records via their base URL
• Find the base URL on the website, on www.openarchives.org (mainly periodicals) or www.opendoar.org(institutional repositories), or contact the database administrators.
Harvest OAI records Examples:
https://openarchives.org/Register/BrowseSites/
RDA helper or via MarcEditor
• Inserts certainRDA fields & codes
Result (video):
before after
How to output catalogue records to a marc file :
SIERRA library system
Z39.50/SRU Client or via MarcEditor
• Pulls in records from external databases
Some other Z39.50 servers for Open Access content: https://www.indexdata.com/resources/open-content/
Other URL tools
• Generate record from URL (note: returns minimal/incomplete data)
• URL checker(Cannot check if your institutionhas access, just checks if it is a valid URL)
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MARCNext : the future