Automated MARC data retrieval

[Anonymous Monk]

I have been tasked with organizing and managing a small church library. To that end I have installed openbiblio, a PHP based library management and tracking program. My question is twofold:

1. The program accepts batch upload only of MARC format data. I have a list of ISBNs. I am looking for a preexisting solution that will get retrieve MARC format data when supplied with ISBN's. I feel sure this must have already been done in Perl at some point and the MARC/PL project seems to indicate that as well. I have searched CPAN in the MARC namespace, but didn't find anything that seemed likely. As a far second best I'd be interested in any preexisting solution that will retrieve a fair amount of publication info including title,author,publisher and subject at a minimum.

2. I am much more familiar with Perl than PHP. Does anyone know of an alternative to openbiblio based on Perl rather than PHP?

Thanks!

[secret]

Hello,

If i remember corectly KOHA is a library management tool with MARC files support and a impressive list of features, and written in Perl !

Project homepage is at http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/koha/ and there's a website at http://www.koha.org/.

HTH
secret.

Update: Regarding kulls post (just above mine ;) i can confirm koha is Perl only since that's how i heard about it in the first place .

[PodMaster]

I have searched CPAN in the MARC namespace, but didn't find anything that seemed likely.

Really? Both MARC and MARC::Record seem very likely.

I am much more familiar with Perl than PHP. Does anyone know of an alternative to openbiblio based on Perl rather than PHP?

• perl OPAC site:sourceforge.net/projects/ or perl library catalog site:sourceforge.net/projects/ ... Perl : Web-Based : 5 - Production/Stable.. two most promising results
  • http://sourceforge.net/projects/emilda/ Emilda is a complete Integrated Library System that features amongst others an OPAC, circulation and administration functions, Z39.50 capabilities and 100% MARC compatibility. MARC compatibility is achieved using Zebra in conjunction with MySQL.
  • http://sourceforge.net/projects/webpac Implementation of web library catalog (sometimes caled OPAC) based on SWISH-E and perl. It uses OpenIsis for CDS/ISIS files, http feed for web listings, MARC files and other structured sources like M$ Excel files. Uses flexibile XML config files.

[kulls]

I found it in Net, koha somewhat similar to openbiblio and it's written in perl i guess.
-kulls

[jhourcle]

You can find a large list of open-source library related programs at http://oss4lib.org/projects/

(surprisingly for a bunch of library folks, they're organized alphabetically, rather than by purpose, or language, or any other sorts of faceting)

[emilper]

finding MARC data: Net::Z3950 might help http://search.cpan.org/~mirk/Net-Z3950-0.50/Z3950.pm


databases you might search with NET::Z3950
get a list from here
http://www.indexdata.dk/targettest/l.php


finding book data: Net::Amazon might help


I do recoment Koha (www.koha.org) : last time I checked it was written in Perl, used HTML::Template, could import MARC records, and, most important, it was used in real life ... the only drawback was that it was overkill for the research library I worked for ...