Writing

How the work is built

Longer write-ups from the projects on the front page: what was measured, what was reverted, and what each thing refuses to claim.

All pieces

Nr. 5 · Cataloguing

And back into the catalogue

marc-flow proposes; something else has to write. A worked example against a real Koha — one thin biblio out, a webhook receiver in, and the accepted proposals back on the same record.

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Nr. 3 · Cataloguing

Thin records in, catalogued records out

A short tour of marc-flow — hand a record an ISBN, a publisher page or a photograph of its title page, and read back field-level proposals you can accept one at a time.

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Nr. 2 · Search engines

Microseconds in the stacks

A MARC21 catalogue parsed, indexed, graphed and drawn by one static Go binary — and an assistant that cannot cite a record the catalogue did not hand it.

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Nr. 1 · Parsers

Byte-identical, and eleven times faster

gomarc is a port of pymarc to Go — binary MARC21, MARC-8, MARCXML and MARC-in-JSON. The claim that matters is not the speedup; it is that both libraries write the same bytes.

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