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MARC2RIS(1) RefDB Manual MARC2RIS(1) NAME marc2ris - converts MARC bibliographic data to the RIS format SYNOPSIS marc2ris [-e log-destination] [-h] [-l log-level] [-L log-file] [-m] [-o outfile] [-O outfile] [-t input_type] [-u t|f] file DESCRIPTION marc2ris attempts to extract the information useful to RefDB from MARC datasets. MARC (Machine Readable Catalogue Format) is a standard originat- ing from the 1960s and is widely used by libraries and bibliographic agen- cies. Most libraries that offer Z39.50 access can provide the records in at least one MARC format (like with most other "standards" there's a couple to choose from). Currently the following MARC dialects are supported: MARC21 This is an attempt to consolidate existing MARC variants (mainly USMARC and CANMARC) and will most likely be the format supported by all li- braries in the near future. The format is described on the [1]Library of Congress MARC pages. UNIMARC This is the European equivalent of a standardization attempt. The speci- fication can be found [2]here. UKMARC This format is fairly close to the USMARC variant and is mainly used by libraries in the United Kingdom and in Ireland. Libraries supporting this format may switch to MARC21 in the future. Unfortunately there is no online description of this format, but this [3]PDF document describes the main differences between USMARC and UKMARC. OPTIONS By default the script reads USMARC data from stdin and sends RIS data to stdout. -e log-destination log-destination can have the values 0, 1, or 2, or the equivalent strings stderr, syslog, or file, respectively. This value specifies where the log information goes to. 0 (zero) means the messages are sent to stderr. They are immediately available on the screen but they may in- terfere with command output. 1 will send the output to the syslog fa- cility. Keep in mind that syslog must be configured to accept log mes- sages from user programs, see the syslog(8) man page for further infor- mation. Unix-like systems usually save these messages in /var/log/user.log. 2 will send the messages to a custom log file which can be specified with the -L option. -h Displays help and usage screen, then exits. -l log-level Specify the priority up to which events are logged. This is either a number between 0 and 7 or one of the strings emerg, alert, crit, err, warning, notice, info, debug, respectively (see also Log level defini- tions). -1 disables logging completely. A low log level like 0 means that only the most critical messages are logged. A higher log level means that less critical events are logged as well. 7 will include de- bug messages. The latter can be verbose and abundant, so you want to avoid this log level unless you need to track down problems. -L log-file Specify the full path to a log file that will receive the log messages. Typically this would be /var/log/refdba. -m Switch on additional MARC output. The output data will be the RIS output interspersed with the source MARC data used to generate the output. This is useful to fix conversion errors manually. -o file Send output to file. If file exists, its contents will be overwritten. -O file Send output to file. If file exists, the output will be appended. -t input_type Specify the MARC input type. The default is MARC21. Other available types are UNIMARC and UKMARC. -u t|f Request Unicode output if set to "t" (this is the default). marc2ris at- tempts to convert the input data into Unicode (unless the dataset ex- plicitly states that it already uses Unicode). If the conversion does not seem to work, set this to "f" as some MARC variants do not state the character encoding explicitly. CONFIGURATION marc2ris evaluates the file marc2risrc to initialize itself. Table-1.-marc2risrc----------------+----------------------+ | Variable | Default | Comment | +-----------+----------------------+----------------------+ | outfile | (none) | The default output | | | | file name. | +-----------+----------------------+----------------------+ | outappend | t | Determines whether | | | | output is appended | | | | (t) to an existing | | | | file or overwrites | | | | (f) an existing | | | | file. | +-----------+----------------------+----------------------+ | unmapped | t | If set to t, unknown | | | | tags in the input | | | | data will be output | | | | following a <un- | | | | mapped> tag; the re- | | | | sulting data can be | | | | inspected and then | | | | be sent through sed | | | | to strip off these | | | | additional lines. If | | | | set to f, unknown | | | | tags will be grace- | | | | fully ignored. | +-----------+----------------------+----------------------+ | logfile | /var/log/med2ris.log | The full path of a | | | | custom log file. | | | | This is used only if | | | | logdest is set ap- | | | | propriately. | +-----------+----------------------+----------------------+ | logdest | 1 | The destination of | | | | the log information. | | | | 0 = print to stderr; | | | | 1 = use the syslog | | | | facility; 2 = use a | | | | custom logfile. The | | | | latter needs a | | | | proper setting of | | | | logfile. | +-----------+----------------------+----------------------+ | loglevel | 6 | The log level up to | | | | which messages will | | | | be sent. A low set- | | | | ting (0) allows only | | | | the most important | | | | messages, a high | | | | setting (7) allows | | | | all messages includ- | | | | ing debug messages. | | | | -1 means nothing | | | | will be logged. | +-----------+----------------------+----------------------+ DATA PROCESSING The purpose of the MARC format is entirely different from the purpose of the RIS format, so you shouldn't be too surprised that the import of MARC data is somewhat rough at the edges. The filter apparently deals fine with quite a lot of datasets, but the following shortcomings are known (and more are likely to be discovered by the interested reader): * Some fields, like 846, are currently ignored completely. This, of course, is bound to change. * Author names specified in the natural order, i.e. something like First Middle Last, are not normalized due to the problems with multiple middle or last names. Author names in the inverse order, i.e. something like Last, First Middle, are normalized correctly in most cases. Handling of non-European names is a matter of trial and error. * Character set handling is somewhat limited. Only the unaltered input character encoding or UTF-8 are available for the output data. That said, there is still some hope. The -m command line option switches on additional MARC output. That is, the generated output will contain inter- spersed lines that show the contents of the original MARC fields used to generate the following RIS line or lines. For example, the following output snippet shows how marc2ris generated the author lines from the MARC input: <marc>empty author field (100) <marc>:Author(Ind1): 1 <marc>:Author($a): Ershov, A. P. <marc>:Author($b): <marc>:Author($c): <marc>:Author(Ind1): 1 <marc>:Author($a): Knuth, Donald Ervin, <marc>:Author($b): <marc>:Author($c): AU - Ershov,A.P. AU - Knuth,Donald Ervin If you feel marc2ris does not translate your data appropriately, the easi- est way might be to use the -m switch and redirect the output into a file. Then you can analyze the situation and fix the RIS lines as you see fit. Finally you can strip the MARC lines off with a command like: ~$ grep -v "<marc>" < withmarc.ris > womarc.ris FILES /usr/local/etc/refdb/marc2risrc The global configuration file of marc2ris. $HOME/.marc2risrc The user configuration file of marc2ris. SEE ALSO RefDB (7), bib2ris (1), db2ris (1), en2ris (1), med2ris (1). RefDB manual (local copy) <prefix>/share/doc/refdb-<version>/refdb-man- ual/index.html RefDB manual (web) <[4]http://refdb.sourceforge.net/manual/index.html> RefDB on the web <[5]http://refdb.sourceforge.net/> AUTHOR marc2ris was written by Markus Hoenicka <markus@mhoenicka.de>. REFERENCES 1. Library of Congress MARC pages http://www.loc.gov/marc/ 2. here http://www.ifla.org/VI/3/p1996-1/sec-uni.htm 3. PDF document www.bl.uk/services/bibliographic/marcchange.pdf 4. http://refdb.sourceforge.net/manual/index.html http://refdb.sourceforge.net/manual/index.html 5. http://refdb.sourceforge.net/ http://refdb.sourceforge.net/ 2005-10-16 2005-10-16 MARC2RIS(1)
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