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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 any [...]

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