MarcEdit

MarcEdit aims at making metadata translation and editing easier for both the beginner and advanced users. Its features include among others:

MarcEditor: The MarcEditor is MarcEdit’s built in metadata editor. It includes a number of global editing functions, full regular expression and UTF-8 support, as well as the ability to configure the editor to utilize any characterset supported by the operating system. Included functions: Globally Add/Delete Fields, Edit Subfields, Swap Field Data, Copy Field Data, Edit Indicators, Generate Call Numbers, Validate Records, Generate Reports, Find/Replace, Direct Integration with Supported ILS systems, Macro support, Task Support, etc.

Harvest OAI Data: MarcEdit has the ability to harvest metadata from an OAI data provider and convert the data directly to MARC. Supported formats are MARCXML, oaimarc, oai_dc, and MODS. However, the program allows the user to provide their own translation rules, so any format could be accommodated.

XML Translations: MarcEdit supports the facilitation of metadata from XML and non-XML formats into various forms, including MARC.

Characterset conversion: MarcEdit supports the ability to convert MARC records from one characterset to another. This includes the traditional charactersets like MARC-8 (ANSEL) and UTF-8. But it also includes support for any characterset currently supported by the operating system. So users with MARC data in Traditional Chinese can utilize MarcEdit to convert that data to UTF-8.

Z39.50/SRU Client: MarcEdit includes a built in Z39.50 and SRU client for interaction with other library systems. MARC SQL Explorer: MarcEdit includes an SQL Explorer — a tool that allows users to export their data into either an SQLite or MySQL data and run SQL queries directly on the data to mine for information.