Dear friend,<br>I am not familiar with ABCD. But as it is based on ISIS, it should allow you to define the output using PFT. So you can write a PFT to print the output in MARC format. <br>Check out whether following link is helpfull-<br>
<a href="http://sites.google.com/site/abcdtutorials/Home/database-import">http://sites.google.com/site/abcdtutorials/Home/database-import</a><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2011/6/17 Doug Dearden <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dearden@sarsf.org">dearden@sarsf.org</a>></span><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div link="blue" vlink="purple" lang="EN-US"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Hello Admire,<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Koha stores the data in MARC format, either MARC21 or UNIMARC, so you need to convert the data to that format in order to import it into Koha.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">There is a free tool called MarcEdit that can help with this, it is available here: <a href="http://people.oregonstate.edu/%7Ereeset/marcedit/html/index.php" target="_blank">http://people.oregonstate.edu/~reeset/marcedit/html/index.php</a> .<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Hope that helps.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Doug<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in">
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt"> <a href="mailto:koha-bounces@lists.katipo.co.nz" target="_blank">koha-bounces@lists.katipo.co.nz</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:koha-bounces@lists.katipo.co.nz" target="_blank">koha-bounces@lists.katipo.co.nz</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>amutsikiwa<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, June 17, 2011 12:50 AM<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:koha@lists.katipo.co.nz" target="_blank">koha@lists.katipo.co.nz</a><br><b>Subject:</b> [Koha] Migrating data from ABCD to Koha<u></u><u></u></span></p>
</div></div><div><div></div><div class="h5"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-ZW">Hi <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-ZW"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-ZW">There is an institution in Zimbabwe that have been using ABCD but are having challenges with the system. They are now contemplating going the koha root. However, they want their bibliographic records to be migrated to Koha. They are saying they are not using MARC format in their ABCD. Any idea on how to do the migration.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-ZW"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-ZW">Regards,<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-ZW">Admire Mutsikiwa<u></u><u></u></span></p></div>
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