On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 01:35:20PM +0000, Timothy Murphy wrote:
>> Here is the precise application - any solutions gratefully received.
>> You can get a complete bibliographic entry for a book
> from the Library of Congress by sending the ISBN number.
> The information is returned in MARC (or MARCXML) format.
> Here is a command that might work:
>> zoomsh "connect z3950.loc.gov:7090/voyager" "search @attr 1=7 1565928628"
> "set preferredRecordSyntax marc" "show 0 1" quit
>> [send as one line - substitute xml for marc to get result in MARCXML format]
> Here the ISBN number is 156592862.
> The MARC format is pretty obvious.
> There are a large number of possible fields (and sub-fields)
> labelled by numbers corresponding to Author(s), Title, Publisher, etc.
>> What I would like is a GUI program
> which asks in one window for the ISBN number
> and then analyses the data returned
> and gives the main items Author(s) etc in reasonably neat format.
>
Ready made solution:
Tellico @ http://periapsis.org/tellico/
k.
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