There are often situations where you need to apply different configuration settings to different MARC files. For example, if you load files from different libraries, you may wish to use different hard-coded “collection,” “institution” and/or “building” facets for each file. Fortunately, the SolrMarc import tool makes this fairly easy to accomplish.

It is important to understand that SolrMarc has two different kinds of configuration files: the SolrMarc configuration file (called import.properties by default) and the index specification file (exemplified by marc.properties and marc_local.properties). The configuration file provides high-level configuration settings for SolrMarc, such as the URL of the Solr instance that will receive MARC records, and the name(s) of index specification file(s) to use. The index specification file(s) contain the rules for performing the indexing operation.