On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 10:17 AM, Joe Atzberger <ohiocore@gmail.com> wrote:
John --
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.
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:
a group of staged records where ISBN is confidently matched, and a text file with the subset of unmatched or ambiguous ISBNs
Hi All I seem to remember Mason has done something like this for a client in the past, he may have a script handy that will work as a base for this Chris