[Metadatalibrarians] MarcEdit's OAI Harvester ?

[Kristin E. Martin]

I'm not familiar with MarcEdit's OAI harvester, but there might be 
another way for you to get MARC records for your catalog.  I'm assuming 
you're subscribed to the Serial Set through LexisNexis, and if so, they 
provide the records already in MARC format: 
http://academic.lexisnexis.com/product-information/machine-cataloging.aspx

You can contact your representative for the password to access the 
records.  I haven't worked with these recently, but I assume they are 
still available for libraries.

Kristin

Kristin E. Martin
Metadata Librarian
Catalog Department (MC 234)
2-390 Richard J. Daley Library
University of Illinois at Chicago
801 S. Morgan
Chicago, IL  60607
312-413-5052
312-413-0424 (Fax)
kmarti at uic.edu

Keenan, Teressa wrote:
> Anyone out there using MarcEdit's OAI Harvester to download Dublin Core
> Records?  Is there another OAI harvester that I should look into getting
> that would work better? 
>
> My end goal is to access the access the Dublin core records for the U.S.
> Congressional Serial Set that are available for subscribers to the
> database And then convert them into MARC so I can then add them to our
> catalog.  This is new territory for me so any help would be greatly
> appreciated.  
>  
> I was given an http address to access the Dublin core records (I'm not
> sure I'm supposed to share it publically but the format of the address
> was http://somewordshere.com/oai/harvest.xml) but I'm not sure what to
> do with it.  I was unable to find any tutorials on using the OAI
> harvester in MarcEdit so I tried just using the address I was given in
> the server address box and left the default settings in the metadata
> type and the crosswalk path.  Hit ok and I got the following error
> message:
>
> "The defined crosswalk does not appear to exist.  Please verify that
> this file exists."
>
> Obviously there's more to it than that. Is there an OAI harvesting for
> Dummies out there?
>
> Teressa
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