Thanks Steven. John: Can I get a copy of your program to analyze? How did you end up uploading the records into the DB. thanks, Erik ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steven F. Baljkas" <baljkas@mb.sympatico.ca> Date: Sun, 5 Oct 2003 22:51:23 -0500 To: "Stephen Hedges" <shedges@skemotah.com>,"Erik Peterson" <reefdude@email.com>,<jferraro@alma.athenscounty.lib.oh.us> Subject: Re: [Koha] Bulk loads of MARC records
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
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