Re: [VuFind-General] Structural marc problems

[Demian K. <dem...@vi...>]

I'm copying this to solrmarc-tech in case anyone there has some ideas.  Are you able to open your MARC records a tool like MarcEdit or convert them with a tool like yaz-marcdump?  It might be interesting to do some cross-checking.  Maybe you can fix problems with a different tool prior to importing... or perhaps another tool will give you a better idea of exactly what is wrong.

- Demian

From: kevin smith [mailto:as...@gm...]
Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2012 3:01 PM
To: hor...@ma...; vuf...@li...
Subject: [VuFind-General] Structural marc problems

Hello,

I have run into some issues importing records into VuFind from Horizon.  It had been going along fine for weeks, but now I am getting all sorts of errors.  Something like this:

ERROR [main] (MarcImporter.java:257) - Error reading record: For input string: "ocm6"
ERROR [main] (MarcImporter.java:257) - Error reading record: unable to parse record length
ERROR [main] (MarcImporter.java:257) - Error reading record: null
ERROR [main] (MarcImporter.java:257) - Error reading record: Directory length is not a multiple of 12 bytes long. Unable to continue.
ERROR [main] (MarcImporter.java:257) - Error reading record: unable to parse record length
ERROR [main] (MarcImporter.java:257) - Error reading record: null
ERROR [main] (MarcImporter.java:257) - Error reading record: Directory length is not a multiple of 12 bytes long. Unable to continue.
ERROR [main] (MarcImporter.java:257) - Error reading record: unable to parse record length
ERROR [main] (MarcImporter.java:257) - Error reading record: null
ERROR [main] (MarcImporter.java:257) - Error reading record: Directory length is not a multiple of 12 bytes long. Unable to continue.
ERROR [main] (MarcImporter.java:257) - Error reading record: unable to parse record length
ERROR [main] (MarcImporter.java:257) - Error reading record: null

I am not sure if this has to do with a record that is too long for marc, or some other leader problems.  I have been looking at this blog post about some Horizon specific issues: http://bibwild.wordpress.com/2010/02/02/structural-marc-problems-you-may-encounter/

I am just not sure where to go from here.  Are there queries I can run against the Horizon database to check for, and fix the integrity of the marc records?

Thanks,

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Kevin Smith
Digital Library Manager
Wake County Public Libraries