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Cheat Sheet for MarcEdit 5.1

LACUNY Cataloguing Roundtable

April 28, 2009

 

 

MarcEdit Basics

http://oregonstate.edu/~reeset/marcedit/html/help.html

 

 

MarcBreaker

  • Breaks a MARC record into MarcEdit's mnemonic file format (*.mrc), the Library of Congress's MARCXML Schema, and Dublin Core.

  • Use this function to move vendor records from *.mrc or *.dat formats into the *.mrk format used in the MarcEditor.

 

 

MarcMaker

  • Make MarcEdit's mnemonic file format back into MARC (*.mrc) from the MARC Tools dialog and the MarcEditor.

  • Use this to convert completed and saved *.mrk files back into the *.mrc file format used in record loads

 

 

MarcEditor

  • Allows users to interact directly with their MARC records, use this function for viewing and editing

  • The file types *.mrk and *.mrk8 are associated with the MarcEditor function

  • Editing functions include:

  • Find and replace text

  • Get field counts

  • Add and delete fields

  • Edit indicator data

  • Edit subfield data

  • Swap field data

  • Create and assign constant data

  • Validate MARC records

 

  • Tips

    • Delimiter = $

    • Blanks in indicators and fixed fields = \

    • Append data = ^e

    • Prepend data = ^b

    • All fields begin with “=” (ie =90 \\$aH30$b.A4 1990)

    • Do not use OCLC spacing around delimiters (ie =300 \\$axii, 300 p. ;$c17 cm.)

    • Do not use spaces in between subfields
    • When matching entire datafields, please include indicator information, i.e. \\$amytest$bmytext will match

 

 

 

 

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