Re: [VuFind-Tech] [VuFind-General] FW: Unimarc

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Hi, Daniel; Hello Demian!

Just having a chance to read e-mail now, so sorry for the delay in replying
with something that might help, I reckon.

MARC21 is here to stay and sooner or later UNIMARC, UKMARC, MAB and alike
will be history (haven't been in IFLA Congress in Finland, but for sure
that is the general feeling -- also ILS vendors have enough headaches and
always UNIMARC and alike suffer delays because of the adaption they have to
do and translation of help environment, so don't be surprise if from a
version to another they announce the new one will only support MARC21. Also
for sharing and treatment proposes it better to have the aleph_dump.mrc in
MARC21 so to have the record in VuFind in MARC21 format (and all the
benefits that brings).

I've reversed engineered the MARC21 to UNIMARC Ex Libris "gives away" in
their "a20" environment (folder /exlibris/aleph/a20_1/uni01/tab/tab04), the
one you should not change in any case, even in the event of a nearby world
ending.

So place those "inverted" (UNIMARC to MARC21) in a new lines group in our
“Aleph user environment space” (u20_1) proper file:

/exlibris/aleph/u20_1/xxx01/tab/tab04

and defined them as U2M21 in

/exlibris/aleph/u20_1/bua01/tab/tab_fix :

U2M21 fix_doc_tab04_05  (equals the U2M21 are defined in lines starting
with “05” in tab04

I do not do a differential (new or altered records) import, instead do a
full import (a question of a few minutes for our 236K records -- some very
complete). Here is the script to dump Aleph records I using – bua01 is our
main/unique bib library – sorry for the PT in the file names, but I guess
it is to find out what they mean, looking at the procedure that generate
them:

csh -f /exlibris/aleph/a20_1/aleph/proc/p_ret_01
BUA01,,regs_todos,000000000,999999999,,00,00000000,99999999,00000000,99999999,,AND,NOT,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,00000000,99999999,ALEPH,;
csh -f /exlibris/aleph/a20_1/aleph/proc/p_ret_03
BUA01,regs_wbas99,wbas^=^99,; csh -f
/exlibris/aleph/a20_1/aleph/proc/p_ret_10
BUA01,regs_todos,NOT,regs_wbas99,regs_todos_sem_wbas99,; csh -f
/exlibris/aleph/a20_1/aleph/proc/p_print_03
BUA01,regs_todos_sem_wbas99,ALL,,,,,,,,regs_todos_sem_wbas99.seq,A,,,,N,;
cat /exlibris/aleph/u20_1/bua01/scratch/regs_todos_sem_wbas99.seq | sed
's/>>//g' | sed 's/<<//g' >
/exlibris/aleph/u20_1/bua01/scratch/regs_todos_sem_wbas99_sem_bicos.seq;
csh -f /exlibris/aleph/a20_1/aleph/proc/p_file_12
BUA01,regs_todos_sem_wbas99_sem_bicos.seq,regs_todos_sem_wbas99_sem_bicos.mrc,N,U2M21,

Sorry, tried but could not connect to Aleph (momentary access problem to UA
Computer Center VPN), so could not share now the lines (also, haven't had
lunch yet -- 6pm over here, small detail, please ignore), but it would be
my pleasure to share it ASA I have access to Aleph.

What do you say (all, about having VuFind official format as MARC21
approach instead of importing in different formats)?

All the best,

Filipe

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*Going Beyond the Bibliographic Catalog:
The Basis for a New Participatory Scientific Information Discovery and
Sharing Model*

Filipe Bento and Lídia Silva (University of Aveiro, Portugal)

IGI Global, 2013. ISBN 9781466619128, p. 1-38

http://www.igi-global.com/chapter/going-beyond-bibliographic-catalog/69262

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University of Aveiro, Portugal

Electronic & Telecommunication Engineering (5 yrs degree, UA) * MSc in
Electronic Information Management (U.Sheffield, UK)

European Space Agency [ESA] Industrial Placement (IRS / ESRIN – European
Space Research Institute, Frascati [Rome], Italy)

ICPD Doctorate Candidate (UA | U.Porto) * PhD Researcher (UA/CETAC.Media),
grant by FCT - Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology

President/Chair of USE.pt Steering Committee (Portuguese Ex Libris Users’
National Association, hosted by Portuguese Parliament's Library, Palácio de
S. Bento, Lisbon, http://metis.fe.up.pt/use/)

On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 5:24 PM, Demian Katz <dem...@vi...>wrote:

> Here is the Unimarc configuration I mentioned in my previous message.  You
> can try replacing import/marc.properties with this file and reindexing.
>  Please let me know if you have any further questions.
>
> - Demian
> ________________________________________
> From: Daniel Bourrion [dan...@un...]
> Sent: Friday, May 21, 2010 10:11 AM
> To: vuf...@li...
> Subject: [VuFind-General] Unimarc
>
> Hi.
> We're trying to get vufind working clean with Aleph into a French
> Academic Library.
>
> Here's the v.0.1 :-) of the marc.properties for Unimarc, if it helps
> somebody.
>
> We still have work on it, but the import works (not perfectly, but not
> so badly)
>
> Best
>
> --
> Avec mes salutations les plus cordiales.
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