Enhanced MARC is a set of classes, modules and methods that sit on top of ruby-marc (https://github.com/ruby-marc/ruby-marc) to help parse the contents of MARC records more easily and conveniently.
Installation: sudo gem install enhanced_marc
Usage:
require 'enhanced_marc'
reader = MARC::Reader.new('marc.dat')
records = []
reader.each do | record |
records << record
end
Note: enhanced-marc only works directly with MARC::Reader. If you want to use it with MARCXML or MARC-JSON, etc.
you'll need to do something like:
reader.each do | record |
records << record.to_typed_record
end
for the same effect
>> records[0].class
=> MARC::BookRecord
>> records[0].is_conference?
=> false
>> records[0].is_manuscript?
=> false
# Send a boolean true if you want human readable forms, rather than MARC codes.
>> records[0].literary_form(true)
=> "Non-fiction"
>> records[0].nature_of_contents(true)
=> ["Bibliography", "Catalog"]
>> records[1].class
=> MARC::SoundRecord
>> records[1].composition_form(true)
=> "Jazz"
>> records[2].class
=> MARC::MapRecord
>> records[2].projection(true)
=> ["Cylindrical", "Mercator"]
>> records[2].relief(true)
=> ["Color"]