marc

How can I replace the ISBN with the Google Books ID in a MARC file, using Perl?

I've got a file with some book data in MARC format, of which some lines are ISBNs. I'd like to replace these lines with the Google Books ID of that ISBN, if it exists. Here's the code so far, which just ends up removing the lines: perl -pe "s#ISBN(.*)#$(wget --output-document=- --quiet --user-agent=Mozilla/5.0 \"http://books.google.com/...

Problem merging similar XML files with XSL

I have two documents that I need to merge, that happen in a way that I don't seem to be able to find covered in other examples. Namely, that it needs to match not only on a node's attribute at one level, but also on the value of an attribute a node level below that, to get that node's value. I'm trying to take this sample: <?xml vers...

converting from access to MARC and back

i have a access files with details about book and i need to take the details and turn them to a marc record and vice versa. how is the best way to do it? ...