[Metadatalibrarians] MarcEdit Batch Processing

[Timothy Lepczyk]

Hi Dana,

Thanks for the help.  I ended up making a slight work around.  I was
creating MARCXML from our electronic thesis and dissertation metadata
and then trying to turn that into MARC.  What I ended up doing was
changing my xslt and creating concatenated records within the
<marc:collection> element.  Doing this I was able to bypass the "batch
processing" function in MarcEdit and use the MarcMaker function.  It
created a batch .mrc file which our catalogers were able to load into
our ILS.

Best,

Tim

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[mailto:metadatalibrarians-bounces at lists.monarchos.com] On Behalf Of
Dana Pearson
Sent: Thursday, November 19, 2009 2:29 PM
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Subject: Re: [Metadatalibrarians] MarcEdit Batch Processing

Hi Tim,

Could not really find anything in the help documentation in ver.
5.1.3449.38494 but that's not to say it's not in there somewhere.  I
should point out that the MARCXML needs to be valid.  When I tried to
convert this directory with the batch process, it yielded an empty mrc
file within a processed_files directory (within the source directory).

The offending elements were the leader elements that lacked the
necessary placeholders for positions 0-4 for several records in the
first of 73 xml files.  Not sure how I extracted it from the OAIMARC
since that stylesheet requires valid MARCXML as well.

Select the directory of the MARCXML files for the Source directory input
box; type xml in File types input box, choose the Function MARCXML to
MARC.
Select "process".  The mrc files will be in a directory called
processed_files within the MARCXML directory.
Jpeg image attached in case you're interested.

Others interested in learning more about using MarcEdit might want to
join the newly created list.  Might well be usefully employed within
your workflows.  I could post additional information to the list if so.

regards,
dana

dbpearsonmlis.com

On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 10:08 AM, Timothy Lepczyk
<tlepczyk at wustl.edu>wrote:

> I'm trying to batch process MARCXML to MARC using MarcEdit.  It works,

> but saves all the files with a .xml extension instead of .mrc, which 
> are not recognized by our ILS.  Does anyone know how to correct this?
>
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> Best,
>
>
>
> Tim
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