Library of Congress import

[Wayne D.]

The Library of Congress has a site that you can retrieve information about books, by inputing isbn, author, title, etc. It outputs the data as XML (MARC record??). I want to be able to retieve this info and have it come into my FMP database.

Can anyone show me specifically what I need to do to 1) request the info and 2) find a stylesheet already made to import it into my FMP database. I'm don't know XML, but I do know FMP. Thanks!

[Martin Brändle]

Can you give the URL of this site?

[Wayne D.]

Here is the Lib of Congress gateway:

http://www.loc.gov/z3950/gateway.html

Another reference:

http://www.ifla.org/IV/ifla71/papers/065e-Taylor_Dickmeiss.pdf

[Martin Brändle]

Tried it out. The data returned is not XML, but USMARC.

[Wayne D.]

Thanks for checking it out. Let me rephrase the question.

It appears that an XML request can be made for a book, after which a MARC record is returned. Here's the question:

How can I automate the request via FMP to send the request? (which I assume is via XML) and then...

When the MARC is returned, how do I bring that information into my FMP fields?

Have you or anyone reading this post done that or can write it out or :?

Thanks!

[Martin Brändle]

Where do you submit the XML at this site?