MARCVALIDATE(1p)

💖 NAME 💖

marcvalidate — bestie, it validates a file with MARC21 records. That's it, that's the whole gig ✨

And yes, this is the MARCVALIDATE(1p) page — lowercase p in the corner means it's a Perl situation, iykyk 🫶

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

Okay so here's how you actually call it:

$ marcvalidate [options] FILE

And here are the options, laid out all cute and exact, no cap:

• --type,-t — type of MARC21 serialization. Your choices are RAW or XML, and if you say nothing it just defaults to RAW 🌈
• --schema,-s — location of the MARC JSON schema (like, where the schema lives, drop the path here) 🗂️
• --help,-h — prints this help. Iconic behaviour, truly 💅

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

marcvalidate validates a file with MARC21 records against MARC::Schema and then prints out the errors as a tab separated list — and the order is exactly this, bestie: id, field tag, error, value 🫶

The id? It gets extracted from MARC21 field 001, which you can go read about right here: https://www.loc.gov/marc/bibliographic/bd001.html 👑

And if you want the detailed description of the (default) schema, it's called "MARC21 structure in JSON" and it lives at https://pkiraly.github.io/2018/01/28/marc21-in-json/ — go read it, it's giving reference material 💜

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

Johann Rolschewski <jorol@cpan.org> — yeah, they wrote this. Respect 🙌

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💅 COPYRIGHT 💅

Copyright 2018- Johann Rolschewski — periodt, that's the notice 💖

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🧚 LICENSE 🧚

The legal words, verbatim, because bestie I am not paraphrasing a license:

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

Slay. Free as in go wild (within those terms) 🌈

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🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

Other pages that are lowkey in the same friend group:

• Catmandu::Validator 🐧
• JSON::Schema 📜
• PICA::Schema 🎀
• MARC::Lint 🧹

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and that's the whole page, bestie!! This one shipped as perl v5.40.0, dated 2024-11-15, filed under MARCVALIDATE(1p) — mwah, go validate something, ily 💖✨🎀