InfoWorks Link Checker description
Designed for librarians to check URL links in MARC records and bibliographic databases

InfoWorks Link Checker is a useful application that was specially designed for librarians to check URL links in MARC records and bibliographic databases.


Here are some key features of "InfoWorks Link Checker":

· Works with flat MARC files and non-MARC text files containing URLs.
· Checks URLs links in your bibliographic databases quickly.
· Simple and friendly user interface.
· Detects and reports redirected URLs.
· Super fast! Checks multiple links simultaneously by applying multiple threading technology.
· Detects and reports more than 40 different URL status.
· You define what URL fields (up to 4 different fields) and subfields (up to 8 different subfields) to check.
· Checking process can be started either now or later by setting up the starting date and time.
· Generates a number of reports, including general report (for all links), broken link report, redirected URL report, and blocked URL report.
· Checking results can be exported in delimited format and imported into spreadsheets for your further analysis and link maintenance.
· Checking results and reports can be displayed in your browser.
· URLs can be launched from your report for manual rechecking.
· Works with any integrated library systems.
· Library vendor version is available.


Requirements:

· 64 MB memory
· Web browser
· Internet connection


Limitations:

· The demo version of the Checker is the same as the real working version except that it only allows you to check around 40 links. The demo version includes a flat MARC file, export.dat, for your testing.