goldrush 0.0.2

Generate Gold Rush key for pymarc records

goldrush

Note: This is alpha software. If you rely on this library you should do so with the understanding that you might find errors in the Gold Rush key that is generated. Lets make it better together!

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goldrush is a Python implementation of the Gold Rush match key algorithm for identifying "duplicate" MARC records, or records that appear to be about the same book. It provides a function that you pass a pymarc Record and get back the Gold Rush key as a string.

goldrush was largely adapted from pymarc_dedupe, which included other functionality unrelated to Gold Rush, and was not available on PyPI as a dependency.

Usage

First install:

pip install goldrush

Then load a pymarc record and generate a key:

>>> from goldrush import goldrush
>>> from pymarc import MARCReader
>>> record = next(MARCReader(open('marc.dat', 'rb')))
>>> goldrush(record)
'pragmaticprogrammerfromjourneymantomaster_____________________________2000321____addisa_______________________________________________________hunt________________p'