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From: Dennis Sacks <dennis@illusions.com>
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Iain wrote:

> hi,
>  
> I'm not familiar with iso2709  but there is a program called Octopus 
> that may do what you want. It's open source software and can be found 
> at octopus.enhydra.org - worth a try anyway.


ISO2709 is very similar to MARC records as used by libraries. Its most 
likely  not going to be a simple export.

In ISO2709 there can be variable columns per record, multiple values per 
column. You should be able to find a document that describes ISO2709 - 
and you could write a perl program to do the conversion. You'll need to 
know what tags you should be using. If I recall, ISO2709 doesn't specify 
the tags, only the format of the records, but its been a long time since 
I've looked at it, so I could be wrong.

At one point I did the opposite (sort of) - I wrote a perl program to 
parse ISO2709 files (on mag tapes) and converted them to delimited text 
to be indexed & searched.

Dennis Sacks
dennis@illusions.com



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ISO2709 is very similar to MARC records as used by libraries. Its most
likely&nbsp; not going to be a simple export. <br>
<br>
In ISO2709 there can be variable columns per record, multiple values
per column. You should be able to find a document that describes
ISO2709 - and you could write a perl program to do the conversion.
You'll need to know what tags you should be using. If I recall, ISO2709
doesn't specify the tags, only the format of the records, but its been
a long time since I've looked at it, so I could be wrong.<br>
<br>
At one point I did the opposite (sort of) - I wrote a perl program to
parse ISO2709 files (on mag tapes) and converted them to delimited text
to be indexed &amp; searched.<br>
<br>
Dennis Sacks<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:dennis@illusions.com">dennis@illusions.com</a><br>
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