Installation and Tutorial for the EAD to MARC Conversion Script

1. Unzip the EAD2MARC.zip archive to your PC. On Windows XP, you can unzip the archive by right-clicking on the EAD2MARC.zip file and choosing “Extract all….” Make a note of the location that you selected so that you can easily find the folder. This should create a folder called “EAD2MARC”
   
   
2. Open the EAD2MARC folder and then open the subfolder “bin” and double-click the “MarcEdit4_6a.exe” file to install MarcEdit version 4.6. My conversion script currently only works with MarcEdit version 4.6, so if you have a later version, you must still install this version
   
   
3. Within the EAD2MARC folder, you should also see a script file called “ConvertEAD2MARC.wsf”. Place any EAD XML encoded files within the EAD2MARC folder that you want to convert to MARC...
   
   
4. and then double-click the "ConvertEAD2MARC.wsf" script to run the conversion. You can convert multiple files at the same time. You should receive a “Done!” popup box after the conversion is complete.
   
   
5. A file with a “.dat” extension is created for each of the XML files after conversion. These .dat files are in MARC Communications format and can be imported into a MARC client such as OCLC Connexion client. See below under “Importing your .dat files into OCLC Connexion client”.
   
   
6. There is additional information in the README.pdf file within the "bin" subfolder regarding other features that can be enabled.