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Written by St John on 2025-01-21 at 12:16

I've been fooling around with a #Python script for converting #MARC bibliographic records to #Markdown for use with a static website generator. Probably only has an audience of one (me), but it's not complicated and it solves an interesting problem for private #librarians: how can we get our collections out there when LibraryThing isn't enough but a full OPAC is too much?

https://github.com/dazzlepansy/marc2md

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Written by Frederik Elwert on 2025-01-21 at 13:02

@dazzlepansy That’s neat!

If that’s of interest to you: I started playing around with something related for cultural collections. I found the Pelican static site generator to be particularly interesting in this regard: It has the concept of a generator, so you could even define your MARC file as an input source, and it would generate “virtual” markdown files on the fly without ever writing them to disk (except for the HTML output, of course). Here’s my experiment: https://github.com/frederik-elwert/pelican-collection-demo

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Written by St John on 2025-01-22 at 11:16

@felwert Very cool, thanks for sharing. And Pelican is great, I used to use it before I wound up writing my own static website generator (for... embarrassing reasons). Are you using your plugin for any real collections/sites at the moment?

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Written by Frederik Elwert on 2025-01-22 at 15:13

@dazzlepansy Not yet, but I'm developing it in the context of our collection of Buddhist art. It currently lives at https://heidicon.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/pool/diga/ but I want to create an alternative presence for it. Mainly need to finish the IIIF integration, then I plan a first test.

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Written by maría de los dolores on 2025-01-21 at 19:09

@dazzlepansy there was a trend, oh, ~15 years ago, of creating catablogs, with a series of wordpress plugins for importing marc records. they had their own issues when it came to maintenance. i also wonder if something like collection builder might be a good fit: https://collectionbuilder.github.io/

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Written by St John on 2025-01-22 at 11:08

@anarchivist I love the word "catablog"! That's exactly my goal — being able to have static catalogue records that can be easily hosted and searched using search engine indices. Not as sophisticated as a real OPAC, but I just want something that lets me get my collection out there in a way that LibraryThing doesn't allow.

Thanks for bringing up CollectionBuilder — it's a very nifty platform I hadn't considered. Though I was slightly put off it by a bad metadata course in library school :P

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