Header Conversion Program Available

[Edward F. Gaynor]

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The University of Virginia Library is pleased to make available a
program for converting TEI-tagged bibliographic headers into MARC
format.  The program, tei2marc, was developed by Jeff Herrin
(University Library Systems Office) and Jackie Shieh (Original
Cataloger for Electronic Resources) and is available for anonymous ftp at:

ftp://etext.lib.virginia.edu/pub/tei2marc/tei2marc.tar



Tei2marc is written in perl, and based on the University of Virginia
Library Electronic Text Center's most current document type definition
(DTD), TEILITE.DTD.  It handles English language and reads in a header 
element by element, stores its readings in USMARC format, and
creates an output file (in ASCII) following the MARC computer file
format field by field (excluding the leader).  Tei2marc also creates a 
log file recording the conversion activity that has taken place previously.

What the tei2marc conversion program achieves is transferring all data found 
in a TEI-header to a MARC record with all related fixed and variable fields 
intact.  Tei2marc is designed to read in headers created on TEILITE.DTD 
and give the output in a bare-bones setup for the MARC computer file format.  
Because the University of Virginia Library is participating in OCLC's Internet
Cataloging Project (known as InterCat), the converted records will be sent 
to OCLC's union catalog via FTP. 

The tei2marc conversion program is derived from a similar program developed 
at the University of California at Berkeley by Jerome McDonough 
(jmcd at lucien.Berkeley.EDU)


For more information about this program, contact:

Jackie Shieh
Original Cataloger for Electronic Resources
University of Virginia Library
ejs7y at Virginia.EDU






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-- 
    Edward Gaynor
    Associate Director of Special Collections
    Alderman Library
    University of Virginia
    Charlottesville, VA  22903-2498
    (804) 924-3138
    gaynor at virginia.edu    

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