[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Looking for information on Vandelay Merge/Overlay Profiles

[Ben Shum]

Hi Jason,

It's funny you should ask on dev, one of my colleagues is seeking
similar assistance in the general list I think.

I suggest taking a peek at the following two places:
<http://markmail.org/message/nodjs2m7e247dqw2>
http://markmail.org/message/nodjs2m7e247dqw2 - is a link to a screenshot
Sitka put together of their merge profiles

http://masslnc.cwmars.org/node/2239 - is a link to MassLNC's example doc
on how to use it.

An odd distinction between the two examples is that the specifications
in Sitka's examples are MARC tag codes, and in MassLNC's examples,
they're the names of bibliographic attributes (presumably with the xpath
linking done in that attributions portion).

We've been experimenting here with tag preservation and replacement
using the raw MARC codes (not names); my understanding right now is that
we can only successfully alter a single tag at a time in merge/overlay
profiles.  We're testing the addition of other tags for preservation,
etc. but it's... finicky.

Let us know what you come up with, or I can direct you at our catalogers
to coordinate some more.

-- Ben

On 10/04/2011 12:10 PM, Jason Boyer wrote:
> I've been looking around for any info on how to set up a valid
> merge/overlay profile for the MARC batch import function. Does anyone
> here know anything about it? I'm assuming the
> Preserve/Replace/Add/Remove specifications take XPath or some similar
> thing, but I've not been real successful just poking at it. 
>
> If someone could pass along a working definition I can probably figure
> things out from there.
>
> Thanks
>
> Jason
>
> --
> Jason Boyer, IT Specialist
> Jackson County Public Library
> 303 W Second St
> Seymour, IN 47274
>
> jasonb at myjclibrary.org <mailto:jasonb at myjclibrary.org>
>

-- 
Benjamin Shum
Open Source Software Coordinator
Bibliomation, Inc.
32 Crest Road
Middlebury, CT 06762
203-577-4070, ext. 113

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