I recently launched my first web application. Handlist takes a file of MARC records and turns them into an alphabetically sorted book catalog of titles, authors and subject headings.
It was mostly an excuse to use merb and learn some web programming, but the gem that I wrote behind it was useful for me in a part-time job, so maybe it will be useful for someone else.
If you have a file of some MARC records handy (and less than 2MB) could you give it a test? What could I have done differently? Since I’m new to this I’m all ears. Hopefully soon I’ll post about some of the things I learned while working on this project.
