John --<br><br>Koha allows you to add an arbitrary number of z3950 sources and search them individually or in arbitrary groups. But the type of "shotgun" approach you describe is not currently supported by Koha. <br>
<br>I suspect it is not the kind of workflow a professional cataloger would undertake, mainly because there is no oversight of the quality or accuracy of data injected into the database. Occasionally ISBN's do get reused, so without other criteria or human review, you could conceivably import bogus data. That being said, I like the idea of a mass import by ISBN from text file, breaking it apart into two results:<br>
<ul><li>a group of staged records where ISBN is confidently matched, and<br></li><li>a text file with the subset of unmatched or ambiguous ISBNs<br></li></ul>For now though, it'll have to be something for developers to mull over. You may want to check if there is any similar functionality in <a href="http://biblios.org/">‡biblios</a> (or plans for it). <br>
-- Joe<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 2:46 PM, John Wesley Simpson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:john@swajime.com">john@swajime.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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Howdy,<br>
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I've been using Readerware from <a href="http://www.readerware.com/" target="_blank">http://www.readerware.com/</a> to maintain my library. I have just installed Koha, and am having difficulty understanding how to get my library loaded into it.<br>
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With Readerware, I can load a list of ISBN's from a text file and have Readerware automatically fill in the rest of the data for the books.<br>
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How do I do this in Koha?<br>
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John Wesley Simpson Hibbs <<a href="mailto:john@swajime.com" target="_blank">john@swajime.com</a>><br>
SwaJime's Cove
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