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Converting FileMaker Records to OCLC - Any Facilitating Software?
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Wed, 25 Feb 2009 13:37:33 -0600
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Subject:        Converting FileMaker Records to OCLC - Any Facilitating Software?
Date:   Wed, 25 Feb 2009 14:09:04 -0500
From:   Daniel O. Holmes <[log in to unmask]>
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As the Librarian for the David Rumsey Historical Map Collection, I am
looking for any software tools to make it easier to translate or convert map
catalog records created in FileMaker (which we can export as excel or text
or others) to OCLC.  Right now we use a very ponderous cut-and-paste
procedure.

It would be nice to export from FileMaker, tweek the file if necessary, and
readily import a set of records to OCLC.  Does OCLC have a means to accept
such files ... a template?  Does anyone have a program to facilitate such an
approach?  Is anyone doing this or something close?

Thanks.

Dan Holmes
Librarian and Geographer
Great Circle Information Services
925-254-3360

Librarian
David Rumsey Historical Map Collection
San Francisco, CA

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