MARCXML plugin

[Philz]

Anybody working on a MARCXML plugin? Or is there one already available? If so, where?

Thanks,

Phil

[asmecher]

Hi Phil,

The MarcXMLPlugin that ships with Harvester 2.0 should support MarcXML; if you're having trouble using it for a specific repository, please email me the OAI URL and I'll look into it.

Regards,
Alec Smecher
Open Journal Systems Team

[Than]

Hello,

I am sorry. I couldn't find MarcXML plugin in Harvester release as well as in CVS repository.
Has it been removed??
I need to harvest metadata in MarcXML.
Thanks.

[asmecher]

Hi Than,

The MARC plugin in plugins/schemas/marc should support MarcXML.

Regards,
Alec Smecher
Public Knowledge Project Team

[Than]

Thanks a lot for your very quick reply.
Alec Smecher

I will share my experiences they might be useful.
After carefully inspecting the code I found out that marc plugin in harvester 2.3 supports MarcXML format.
The way it selects the metadataFormat for marc plugin is as follows.

Then it gets the repository supported formats.
It gets the aliases for the schema plugin (oai_marc and marcxml). Stored in schema_aliases table in database.
Then it chooses the first alias that matches repository supported format.
So, oai_marc will always be used if it is supported by repository.

But I need to use marcxml.

Solution:
Edit the schema_aliases table as follows.
2 oai_marc (Edit it to marcxml)
2 marcxml (Edit it to oai_marc)