PICA::Record ------------ 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+. There is also an XML representation of PICA+ and a simple SRU interface to PICA systems for downloading PICA+ records. For a more detailed introduction have a look at PICA::Tutorial, the scripts in directory 'examples' and the tests in directory 't'. 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. To directly call the scripts in the 'bin' directory, you may add it to your PATH. DEPENDENCIES Parts of this module require these other modules and libraries: * LWP::UserAgent * XML::Parser * ZOOM * ... AUTHORS Jakob Voss COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE Copyright (C) 2007,2008 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. Please note that these module is not an official product or supported by the employers of the various contributors to the code nor by OCLC PICA.