Michael Doran, Systems Librarian
University of Texas at Arlington
doran@uta.edu
Voyager Developer Meeting
March 9-10, 2011
Chicago, IL
Typical use cases:
 MARC dumps for discovery layer products
 data dumps for ILS migrations
 special projects
Voyager
Discovery Layer
Product
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Pmarcexport
syntax: marcexport
-o <marc output file>
-r <record type>
[A]uthority or
[S]ubject
or
[M]ain
or
s[E]ries
or
[H]oldings or
[B]ib
or
Bib-MFHD [G]roups
-c <003 identifier>
-s <040d identifier>
-m <export mode>
[M]ARC ID Input File or
[I]SBN Input File or
[R]ange of Marc Ids or
[C]reated - Date Range or
[U]pdated - Date Range or
[B]oth Dates - Date Range or
O[K] to Export - Date Range or
[S]uppressed - Date Range or
[E]xcluded - Date Range or
e[X]cluded and suppressed - Date Range
-t <target records for export based on export mode selected>
beaucoup
parameters
beaucoup parameters
… continued
-l
-L
-O
-E
-X
-R
-i
-n
-q
-w
-a
export only records with this NUC code
export only records with holdings for this location code
export only OCLC
<operator id> excluded records created by this operator id
<fileexclude file>
<fileexclude file>
ignore suppressed records
change LCCN to Control
quiet/no prompts
update holdings 852$a on export
assign character mapping..
one of [R]LIN Legacy Encoding, [O]CLC, [M]ARC21 MARC-8,
[L]ATIN1, or [V]oyager RLIN.
-v version information]
-y <USEMARCON bib marc translation>
must specify ini file with this option.
-h help
Pmarcexport is excellent…
if it does what you need
…and all of what you need
Wouldn’t it be nice to have…
Pmarcexport sandwich
(non-programmer edition)
Pmarcexport sandwich
(programmer edition)
That works, but…
…it’s neither elegant,
nor efficient.
You could wrap it all
into a single script
• MARC Functions
• Advanced MARC Functions
GetAuthBlob(Auth_ID)
GetBibBlob(Bib_ID)
GetMFHDBlob(MFHD_ID)
• Miscellaneous Functions
Analogous to the VB MARC
functions in reports.mdb
first available with
Voyager 99.1 release
Main MARC functions created in 1998/1999
(by James L. Godwin at the Library of Congress).
Voyager releases
• Voyager 99
• Voyager 2001
• Voyager Unicode
• Voyager 5
• Voyager 6
6.1
6.2
6.3
6.4
6.5
• Voyager 7
7.1
7.2
37 Voyager Oracle functions
37 Voyager Oracle functions
25 documented in 6.5 Technical User’s Guide
Bib Data
Record Segment
Concatenator
37 Voyager Oracle functions
25 documented in 6.5 Technical User’s Guide
For an Oracle Stored Function to be used
by the read-only Oracle user,
it must be prefixed with the DB name.
http://rocky.uta.edu/doran/voyager/export/
Leverage
Voyager
Oracle
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Bib
blob
MARC
object
MARC
XML
output
file
852
SQL
MFHD
blob
MARC
object
Extract Bib records and their associated MFHDs
Convert Bib and MFHD “blobs” into MARC Record objects
Parse MFHD; get 852 and add to MARC Bib
Transform MARC records to marcxml and output to file