Sunday, October 6, 2003 22:44 CDT Hi, Erik, I know Stephen H and Joshua F have responded -- so they may know that what I'm about to suggest checking out doesn't work (I haven't been able to try it out) -- but back on August 12, 2003, John Voth wrote the Koha listserv with what would seem to be a solution to your problem (all except the caveat that you would still need to find some way to input all catalogue specific info like the holdings data, acq date, etc.; you might be able to map these into rarely-used MARC fields and then try a global import of those fields -- if Koha would support that kind of global change). Anyway, John Voth's original message read as follows: ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Voth" <jvoth@shaw.ca> To: <koha@lists.katipo.co.nz> Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2003 2:06 PM Subject: [Koha] MARC importing tool?
Howdy!
I've developed a couple of programs that I have used to aid me in populating the library database.
The first program takes a raw scan of a book's EAN (ie:9781575212784) and converts it into the ISBN (ie:1575212781).
The second program takes a list of ISBN's and attempts to retrieve the ARC record for each title from the LoC.
I have successfully used these two programs to obtain MARC records on approximately 4000 titles so far. I think it took about 40 minutes to poll the LoC and save all the responses to a file. [snip]
Regards, John ===========================
Hope this helps, Cheers, Steven F. Baljkas library tech at large Koha neophyte Winnipeg, MB, CANADA