[Metadatalibrarians] MarcEdit Batch Processing

[Dana Pearson]

If you didn't have the <marc:collection> as the outer element, that might
have been the reason the stylesheet within MarcEdit choked.  Always fun to
find a way around a problem though.

On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 2:50 PM, Timothy Lepczyk <tlepczyk at wustl.edu> wrote:

> 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?
> >
> >
> >
> > Best,
> >
> >
> >
> > Tim
> >
> >
> >
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