[smc-discuss] GSOC'14: Grandham

[Anivar Aravind]

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On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 2:04 AM, Deepak kumar <deepak.kumar.ece11 at itbhu.ac.in
> wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>
> As suggested, I have gone through the documentation of MARC21. What I have
> understood is, MARC21 is a basically formatting of certain records/data
> either bibliographic, authority, holdings, or community information. In
> other words we can say it as encoding and decoding process of records in a
> fixed format. Today MARC21 is most predominant and widely used. So in order
> to import data from a MARC21 record we have to read the record character by
> character and perform decoding operation. The project says we have to
> import and export data in MARC21 records. The only tough thing about this
> project is to know the MARC21 format.
> So my steps will be
> 1. Reading the MARC21 record file as a string or reading fixed number of
> character from record each time instead of reading whole record as single
> string.
> 2. Assigning these fixed length strings to fixed
> variables.(Tag,length,start position,end position)
> 3. With the help of these tags reading the rest of file.
> 4. Lastly formatting these pieces of data in fixed format for end users
> with the help of inbuilt database.
>
> This will be basic idea of my work. Please correct me wherever I am wrong
> also if I am missing any point.
>
> Kind Regards,
>
> Deepak Kumar
> Electronics Engineering
> B.Tech III Year
> IIT (BHU),Varanasi,India
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