MARCIt Cron-able Script

Tags: marcit, automate, sfx, elympics
Last Updated: Feb 19, 2010 17:26

Description
cron_marcit.cgi http://www.exlibrisgroup.org/download/attachments/26739622/cron_marcit.cgi is a PERL script that automates the activation of the marcit process so that marcit can be cronned. It interacts with the SFX Admin web interface in much the same way that library staff do. This way if Ex Libris changes the underlying scripts, the process continues to work. In theory, you could modify this to run with the manual export, but this particular instance is set up to run with a profile.
Author: Mark Dehmlow
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Institution: University of Notre Dame
Year: 2010
License: GNU GPL version 3, Copyright 2010 University of Notre Dame/Hesburgh Libraries
Link to terms: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html
Skill required for using this code:
basic

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SFX
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State

Stable

Programming language

PERL

SFX

This uses standard PERL modules that should be installed with SFX.

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http://www.exlibrisgroup.org/download/attachments/26739622/cron_marcit.cgi

Using the following Ex Libris open interfaces

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Release notes

Version 1.0 - Production Release

Installation instructions

Place the cron_marcit.cgi cgi script in the sfxadmin directory. I typically create a local directory anywhere I put custom scripts so as to differentiate them from the core program.

Make sure that the first line, the path to PERL is correct for your SFX server. You can get this by typing 'which perl' at the command line.

$config->{'sfx_admin_base_url'} = 'http://url:8889/instance/sfxadmin';
$config->{'uname'} = 'sfx admin username';
$config->{'pword'} = 'sfx admin password';
$config->{'file_prefix'} = 'filename prefix you use for marcit records';
$config->{'profile_name'} = 'the name of your marcit profile';
$config->{'record_format'} = 'the record format you select MARC, ALEPH_SEQ, etc.';
$config->{'notification_email'} = 'an email address for someone to get feedback about how the script ran';
$config->{'compare'} = 1; 
# this should be 1 to allow for holdings comparison, or 0 for no compare

If you set the compare variable to 1, you will want to create a file in the directory called compare_file and enter the file name of the file you would like to script to use for the initial comparison, e.g. marit-e-collection.20100210152343

If you cron this, you will want it to run under the SFX user related to the specific instance. The script searches for the home directory to write out to a file where the final record data package will reside.

Known issues

None

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