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I will try to outline here how to index (and search) [[MARC ]] records using [[Zebra]], but tweaking the indexing process is a bit trickier than I know how to do.
1. Install [[yaz]], zebra, and all of their friends. I have found that the "standard" make process works pretty well, but allow yaz and zebra to specify where it puts various configuration files. The extra specification is not worth the effort.
2. Save your MARC records someplace on your file system. By "binary" MARC records, I suppose you mean "real" MARC records -- MARC records in communications format -- MARC records as the types of records fed to traditional integrated library systems. This is opposed to some flavor of XML or "tagged format" often used for display.
Using the yaz-client almost requires a knowledge of Z39.50. Attached should be a Perl script that allows you to search your server in a bit more user-friendly way. To use it you will need to install a few Perl modules and then edit the constant called DATABASE.
Even though [[Z39.50 ]] is/was "kewl" it is still pretty icky. SRU is better -- definitely a step in the right direction, and Zebra supports SRU out of the box. [1]
7. Create an an [[SRU ]] configuration file looking something like this:
<yazgfs>
</yazgfs>
8. Acquire a "better" pqf.properties file. [[PQF ]] is about querying Z39.50 databases. It is ugly. It was designed in a non-Internet world. Instead of knowing that 1=4 means search the title field, you want to simply search the title. Attached is a "better" pqf.properties file, and it is "better" because it maps things like 1=4 to Dublin Core equivalents. Save it in a directory called etc in the same directory as your zebra.cfg file. (Notice how the zebra.cfg file, above, denotes etc as being in zebra's path.)
9. Kill your presently running Z39.50 server.
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--[[User:Ericleasemorgan|Eric Lease Morgan]] 10:24, 18 June 2008 (PDT)
[[Category: Zebra]]
