Iain wrote:
hi,
I'm not familiar with iso2709 but there is a program called Octopus that may do what you want. It's open source software and can be found at octopus.enhydra.org - worth a try anyway.
ISO2709 is very similar to MARC records as used by libraries. Its most likely not going to be a simple export.
In ISO2709 there can be variable columns per record, multiple values per column. You should be able to find a document that describes ISO2709 - and you could write a perl program to do the conversion. You'll need to know what tags you should be using. If I recall, ISO2709 doesn't specify the tags, only the format of the records, but its been a long time since I've looked at it, so I could be wrong.
At one point I did the opposite (sort of) - I wrote a perl program to parse ISO2709 files (on mag tapes) and converted them to delimited text to be indexed & searched.
Dennis Sacks
dennis@illusions.com