Re: [VuFind-Tech] UMICH getting started; Some basic questsions

[Naomi D. <nd...@st...>]

Bill,

You can easily create custom routines that look at the indicators --  
the marc4j code speaks indicators very nicely.  Yes, the lack of  
documentation can be annoying, but the solrmarc version of the marc4j  
code is similar enough that looking at the "standard" marc4j source is  
adequate.

Stanford has a rather complex algorithm to split out full text URLs  
from supplemental URLs that pays attention to the indicators.  I'm  
happy to share the code with you;  I'm in fact happy to contribute it  
to the solrmarc project.   Sadly, our library wiki environment is  
Stanford only, and I've been stalled out in contributing docs to the  
vufind wiki.

Briefly, here are our custom indexing routines:

formats (looking at leader/07,  leader/06,  some 008 chars, and  
006 ... along with some other fields)
accessMethod (online vs on campus vs upon request from offsite storage)
standard numbers (clean ISBN, ISSN, OCLC and LCCN numbers)
fulltext URLs
supplementary URLs
sfx URLs

so far we've been able to use the out-of-the-box capabilities of  
solrmarc for the initial vufind prototype we're rolling out to the  
public on Monday.

i think the solrmarc code is very nice, personally and have been  
pleased to use it as our base for the solr import.

- Naomi


On Sep 8, 2008, at 10:22 AM, Bill Dueber wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 12:49 PM, Alan Rykhus <ala...@mn...>  
> wrote:
>
>> Since I know you are an Aleph site, as for question 2, I use  
>> p_print_03
>> to export the records and then I've created a fix routine that maps  
>> the
>> Aleph alpha tags to numeric tags. This way you have legitimate MARC
>> records.
>
> Just for the record -- the MARC spec allows alphabetic tags.
>
> "Tag  (character positions 00-02), consists of three ASCII numeric
> characters or ASCII alphabetic characters (uppercase or lowercase, but
> not both) used to identify or label an associated variable field. The
> MARC 21 formats have used only numeric tags. "
>
>  -- http://www.loc.gov/marc/specifications/specrecstruc.html
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Naomi Dushay
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