Pride and Prejudice 3: MARC
Yesterday I superduped Pride and Prejudice and got 792 ISBNs, representing manifestations of that book in English and other languages, and some other books, mostly two other Jane Austen works. The day before that, I showed how to use an ISBN to get a free MARC record.
Today, as we slowly amble along this FRBRization experiment, I combined the two and created a file with MARC records for 383 of those manifestations. Why only 383? The other 409 couldn’t be found on the open Z39.50 servers I queried. That’s annoying — this information should be freely available to all — but 383 is enough for what we’re going to do.
It’s not 383 perfectly clean MARC records, either. MARC/Perl comes with a handy script called marclint, which will report errors in a MARC file. (Sadly, there’s no marctidy, which would clean up the errors!)
Recs Errs Filename ----- ----- -------- 383 249 pride-and-prejudice.marc
Some of those errors will be so heinously egregious that we’ll need to get rid of them, but we’ll see about that when we get there.