Tips & Tricks

MARC based tips

Convertion between MARC21 and RIS

• Use MarkEdit to convert between line based (.mrk) and ISO.2709 (.mrc)
• Use marc2ris (Ubuntu) for converting .mrc to RIS

LOC to marc2ris

• Line start= =

• - to \

• Record start =LDR
• Fieldseparator | to $
• Fieldtag followed \t to ` ` (two blanks)

References

• https://marcedit.reeset.net/
• http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/trusty/man1/marc2ris.1.html
• http://www.loc.gov/marc/makrbrkr.html works only on 16 bit systems