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    <h1 style="font-size: 70px">LibreCat</h1>
    <p style="font-size: 30px">- open source applications for libraries - </p>
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<h1>Who are we?</h1>

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<a href="https://github.com/LibreCat">LibreCat</a> is a group of library developers and enthusiasts who meet at library conferences 
such as <a href="https://elag.org">ELAG</a> and <a href="https://swib.org/swib22/">SWIB</a> 
and enjoy sharing code to process library (meta)data. 
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This group was formed in 2013 and created many free and open source tools. Our <a href="https://github.com/LibreCat">project 
page</a> provides an overview of all the tools the group shares with the rest of the world.
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We created our tools mainly because they helped us in our own projects. We hope that these 
tools can help you in your own projects. We are not a company nor have any funding for any 
helpdesk or extensive support. The code is provided as is. If any questions arise please ask 
the developers of the individual projects for assistence.
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If you need more information about the main <a href="https://metacpan.org/pod/Catmandu">Catmandu</a>
project follow our <a href="https://librecatproject.wordpress.com">blog</a>, read our 
<a href="https://github.com/LibreCat/Catmandu/wiki">Wiki</a>, or join our 
<a href="https://lists.uni-bielefeld.de/mailman2/cgi/unibi/listinfo/librecat-dev">mailing list</a>.
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<h1>Catmandu</h1>

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<a href="https://metacpan.org/pod/Catmandu">Catmandu</a> provides a command line client and a Perl API to ease the export (E) 
transformation (T) and loading (L) of data into databases or data file, ETL in short.
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Catmandu is specialized in processing, converting, creating library metadata from
various input sources.
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Catmandu can process: MARC, MAB, XML, Aleph X-services, BagIt, BibTeX, EAD, LIDO, JSON
Markdown, MODS, OAI-PMH, ORCID, PLoS, PNX, RDF, RIS, SRU, XML, XLS, XSD , YAML, Z39.50
and many other formats.
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Want to learn about Catmandu? Follow our:

<a href="https://librecatproject.wordpress.com/tutorial/">Catmandu Tutorial</a>

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