marc is a ruby library for reading and writing MAchine Readable Cataloging
(MARC). More information about MARC can be found at <http://www.loc.gov/marc>.
USAGE require 'marc'
# reading records from a batch file
reader = MARC::Reader.new('marc.dat')
for record in reader
# print out field 245 subfield a
puts record['245']['a']
end
# creating a record record = MARC::Record.new()
record.append(MARC::DataField.new('100', '0', ' ', ['a', 'John Doe']))
# writing a record
writer = MARC::Writer.new('marc.dat')
writer.write(record)
writer.close()
# writing a record as XML
writer = MARC::XMLWriter.new('marc.xml')
writer.write(record)
writer.close()
INSTALLATION
If you are looking at this file you may want to be able to install the code. First you'll need to test:
rake test
then build the gem:
rake package
and install the versioned gem:
gem install pkg/marc-x.x.x.gem AUTHORS
Kevin Clarke <ksclarke@gmail.com>
Bill Dueber <bill@dueber.com>
William Groppe <will.groppe@gmail.com>
Ross Singer <rossfsinger@gmail.com>
Ed Summers <ehs@pobox.com>
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