MarcEdit is a metadata tool designed to work with various library standards beyond just MARC. It includes features for integrating with library systems through APIs and has direct integrations configured for Koha. The developer is looking to integrate with additional systems like Alma and OLE that have open APIs and is interested in Innovative Interfaces if they provide read/write APIs as standard.

1. Fitting MarcEdit into the
library software ecosystem
TERRY REESE
REESET@GMAIL.COM

2. Three development rules I follow
MarcEdit is a real-world metadata tool
◦ Tool is designed to provide workflows for data problems currently facing libraries right now
MarcEdit is MARC Agnostic
◦ Too many metadata tools are anglo-centric; MarcEdit has been designed to work within the very
heterogeneous metadata environment that we find ourselves today, which includes:
◦ Support for MARC (not a particular flavor*)
◦ Near universal characterset support (because the world is bigger than MARC8 and UTF8)
◦ Supports a wide range of Library metadata standards beyond MARC
MarcEdit is one part of the larger library metadata tooling environment
◦ So integrations with OCLC, ILSs (when possible), OpenRefine are important
* And if something assumes MARC21 – call it out

3. Library ILS Mashups
MarcEdit includes an integration framework which
◦ Provides entry points to support:
◦ Search (as Z39.50, SRU, or defined API)
◦ Create New Bibliographic Records
◦ Update Existing Bibliographic Records
◦ Retrieve Bibliographic Records
◦ Delete Bibliographic Records
◦ Tool also has stubs to support Authority data, but I don’t currently have an example that utilizes those
settings.

4. Integrating with Koha
MarcEdit supports direct integration with Koha
◦ Including multiple profiles (for production and testing)
◦ Support Create, Retrieve and Update operations

7. Additional Integrations
Actively looking at integration with other ILS systems where they have either:
1. Open API
2. A customer willing to act as the bridge between MarcEdit and the local system
Next Integration Targets:
1. Alma – work is nearly completed – at this point I’m looking for a testing sandbox
2. OLE -- APIs appear to be ready for this kind of work
3. *** I’d like to look at Innovative Interfaces, but won’t put in the work until their read/write apis
become a standard part of their system and not a for cost add-on.

8. Questions
Contact information: Terry Reese, reeset@gmail.com
Koha API code (C#) available from: https://github.com/reeset/koha_api