PICA::Record is a Perl module for handling PICA+ records. There are classes and methods for reading in, manipulating, and outputting bibliographic records in PICA+ in different ways. This also includes an XML representation of PICA+ and connection to some interfaces to PICA systems for downloading or uploading PICA+ records.
For a more detailed introduction have a look at the documentation, at example scripts, and tests in this distribution.
INSTALLATION
To install this module use the CPAN module or type the following:
perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
make install
You may also just point you PERL5LIB environment variable to the 'lib' directory of this distribution. The script in the 'script' directory should automatically be installed to a path where you can directly run them. Otherwise you may add the directory to your PATH.
DEPENDENCIES
The module dependencies are defined in Makefile.PL.
AUTHORS
Jakob Voss <jakob.voss@gbv.de>
COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
Copyright (C) 2007-2010 by Verbundzentrale Göttingen (VZG) and Jakob Voss
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.8.8 or, at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.