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the weight of legacy data

Sunday, May 20, 2007

v0.97 of MARC::Charset was just released with an important bugfix. If you’ve had the misfortune of needing to convert from MARC-8 to UTF-8 and have used MARC::Charset >= v0.8 to do it you may very well have null characters (0×00) in your UTF-8 data. Well, only if your MARC-8 data contained either of the following [...]

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Update to SRU and CQL::Parser

Wednesday, August 10, 2005

If you are tracking it you might be interested to know that Brian Cassidy added a Catalyst plugin to the SRU CPAN module. Catalyst is a MVC framework that is getting quite a bit of mindshare in the Perl community (at least the small subset I hang out with in #code4lib). And if that wasn’t [...]

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Net::OAI::Harvester v1.0

Wednesday, July 27, 2005

I got an email from Thorsten Schwander at LANL about a bug in Net::OAI::Harvester when using a custom metadata handler with the auto-resumption token handling code. This was the first I’d heard about anyone using the custom metadata handling feature in N:O:H, so I was pleased to hear about it. Thorsten was kind enough to [...]

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CPAN Module Wins Library Award

Wednesday, May 11, 2005

Jane Jacobs (the brains behind MARC::Detrans) let me know that the CPAN module won the NYLink Achievement Award for “Innovation in Technology” (search for Detrans, it’s a big page). Good going Jane, Elizabeth and Stuart!

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MARC, Perl and Unicode

Thursday, May 5, 2005

I’ve been doing some work for Texas A&M who need a MARC::Record module that is Unicode safe. Many ILS vendors are moving away from MARC-8 encoded records towards Unicode. No doubt this move is being spurred on by big players like OCLC who are moving (or have moved) their mammoth WorldCat database to Unicode. At [...]

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