Why we love Terry Reese
2007 February 21
I’m going to the Solr preconference at code4lib and have been working with the Head of Cataloging and Metadata Services here to get a sample set of MARC records into the right format to index in Solr. I’d been planning on using a transform from MARCXML to Solr written by Andrew Nagy. Then I saw this post from Terry Reese. Joy! I can’t wait to try it out and share the technique with the Head of Cataloging and Metadata Services. While MarcEdit won’t work on my Mac, (sorry I don’t have an Intel one so I can’t dual boot) it is still a viable options since cataloging all uses PCs and I have a PC available to me.
Actually, it will work on your mac — I just haven’t been all that good about testing it or letting people know. MarcEdit has a console program (that can do everything the gui program does from a making/breaking aspect) that I use on my RedHat and Mac Mini all the time. The prerequises are having a current version of Mono installed. Given the number of folks likely at the preconference with Non-Windows machines, I’ll likely post something that lets folks know how to make it work on a non-windows machine. I’d love for the GUI part to work as well — but not all the objects that I use are supported by mono at this time.
–TR
So for folks interested, I’ve posted some info on running MarcEdit’s console program on mac/linux platforms under mono at: http://oregonstate.edu/~reeset/blog/archives/421
–TR