PICA::Record
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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+ in different ways. This also includes
an XML representation of PICA+ and connection to some interfaces 
to PICA systems for downloading or uploading PICA+ records.

For a more detailed introduction have a look at the documentation,
at example scripts, and tests in this distribution.

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. The script in the 'script' directory
should automatically be installed to a path where you can directly 
run them. Otherwise you may add the directory to your PATH.

DEPENDENCIES

The module dependencies are defined in Makefile.PL.

AUTHORS

Jakob Voss <jakob.voss@gbv.de>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright (C) 2007-2009 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.
