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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-IE link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Hi Seth, <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Many thanks for your email. I spent some time at this yesterday and figured out what the problem was. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Even though I was choosing marc21 as the import character encoding on the Stage marc for input, it was not until I set marc21 in the system preferences that the records were being imported with the correct field mappings. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Thanks for your suggestions all the same.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Regards, <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Richard<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> koha-bounces@lists.katipo.co.nz [mailto:koha-bounces@lists.katipo.co.nz] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Seth Mayo<br><b>Sent:</b> 22 March 2011 03:49<br><b>To:</b> koha@lists.katipo.co.nz<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Koha] Export/Import question from Alice 5.0<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>Sounds like the MARCEdit changes to field haven't aligned with Koha fields correctly. When we changed from Alice to Koha, many fields needed to be re-mapped in MARC prior to import because Alice uses a completely different MARC tag structure for various areas. It is a mix of standard and non-standard.<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><br clear=all>Seth Mayo<br>IT Technical Manager<br>Email: <a href="mailto:smayo@stpeters.nsw.edu.au" target="_blank">smayo@stpeters.nsw.edu.au</a><br>-------------------------------------------------------<br>St Peter's Anglican Primary School<br>Howe Street<br>Campbelltown NSW 2560<br>PH: 02 4627 2990<br>DID: 02 8203 1368<br>Website: <a href="http://www.stpeters.nsw.edu.au" target="_blank">http://www.stpeters.nsw.edu.au</a><br><br><br><br><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On 22 March 2011 05:25, Richard Eibrand <<a href="mailto:RichardEibrand@rcpi.ie" target="_blank">RichardEibrand@rcpi.ie</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Hi there,<br><br>We are looking to moving from Alice 5.0 to Koha. To that end, I have been playing around with getting our data exported from Alice and imported into Koha.<br><br>The guts of the problem are this:<br>- After exporting a MARC variant file from Alice, and importing it into Alice, the MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME field is populated with what appears to be todays date, with frey 50 after it, e.g. Personal name 20110321 frey50 - instead of Personal name Koha_author as it was entered in Alice.<br>- I used MARCedit to have a look at my export files, and this is what I am getting:<br><br>=LDR 00354nam 22001451a 4500<br>=020 \\$c0.00<br>=040 \\$aRoyal College of Physicians of Ireland<br>=082 \\$bKOH<br>=100 \\$aKoha_Author<br>=245 \\$aKoha_Title$h[Text]<br>=250 \\$aKoha_Edition<br>=260 \\$bKoha_Publisher$cKoha_Year<br>=300 \\$aKoha_Physical Description<br>=500 \\$aKoha_Notes<br>=600 \\$aKoha_Subject<br><br>But this is what I am getting back once the import has completed and the index re-indexed, which is all correct except for the MAIN ENTRY LINE<br><br>000 -LEADER<br> fixed length control field 00404nam a22001571a 4500<br>INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER<br> Terms of availability 0.00<br>CATALOGING SOURCE<br> Original cataloging agency Royal College of Physicians of Ireland<br>DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER<br> Item number KOH<br>MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME<br> Personal name 20110321 frey50<br>TITLE STATEMENT<br> Title Koha_Title<br> Medium [Text]<br>EDITION STATEMENT<br> Edition statement Koha_Edition<br>PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)<br> Name of publisher, distributor, etc Koha_Publisher<br> Date of publication, distribution, etc Koha_Year<br>PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION<br> Extent Koha_Physical Description<br>GENERAL NOTE<br> General note Koha_Notes<br><br>I have tried with all the export formats available to me, namely, 02USMARC, 04USMARC with Copy information and 50 USMARC (Containing TLC Compulsory tags) from Alice.<br>I have also imported them as both UNIMARC or MARC21 - but to no avail.<br><br>Would anyone have any suggestions?<br><br>Many thanks,<br><br>Richard<br><br>------------------------------------------------------------<br>Richard Eibrand<br>ICT Manager<br>Royal College of Physicians of Ireland<br>Frederick House<br>19 South Frederick Street<x-apple-data-detectors://4><br>Dublin<x-apple-data-detectors://4> 2<br>Telephone:01- 8639700<tel:01-%208639700><br>Fax:01-6724707<tel:01-6724707><br>_______________________________________________<br>Koha mailing list <a href="http://koha-community.org" target="_blank">http://koha-community.org</a><br><a href="mailto:Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz" target="_blank">Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz</a><br><a href="http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha" target="_blank">http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha</a><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>