B-6 MarcEdit: A Magic Wand for MARC Records

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Sunday, July 26 - 3:00pm - 4:00pm
Location: 
WCC-Room 152 AB
Target Audience: 
Technical services librarians, metadata/system librarians, database maintenance administrators, digital collection managers
Learning Outcomes: 
1) Participants will be able to demonstrate MarcEdit tools and functions, as well as explain MarcEdit’s API for extended development.
2) Participants will be able to batch edit metadata records using MarcEdit and to generate MARC records from OAI-PMH source sets.

This presentation introduces MarcEdit, a free downloadable metadata software suite created by Terry Reese, Digital Production Unit Head at Oregon State University. The tool is designed specifically forlarge-batch record processing, including batch editing MARC records, character set conversions, and record extractions from data files. MarcEdit provides a method to customize and correct vendor records outside of the ILS system to avoid potential damage to the existing records in a catalog. It is also a great tool for database maintenance. The presentation will cover MARC record editing using MarcEdit, discuss topics related to processing XML metadata, and investigate MarcEdit’s built-in OAI metadata harvester, which provides a simplified method for generating MARC records from OAI repositories (like DSpace, Fedora or CONTENTdm).

Speaker(s): 
Clara Liao, Coordinator and Moderator, Georgetown University Law Library
Terry Reese, Oregon State University