Hi, Denica! On 3/30/07, Danica Zendulková <zendulkova@cvtisr.sk> wrote:
Hello, has had anybody an experience with conversion from CDS/ISIS database to Koha? We have following problem: import from iso2709 from WinISIS doesn't made correct records. Number of imported records is correct but differents fields are not recognized correctly. I.e. first numbers of iso record: 008620000000002650004500003000500... etc are considered as field. It is possible that Koha does not recognize ^ indicator of subfield when CDS/ISIS database is made on Windows? Our Koha runs on Linux. Please help! Regards
Yes, ^ is not a valid subfield indicator as per ISO2709. By default the export in not quite standard. When exporting the data from WinISIS you have to make sure it is not limited to 80 chars per line (there should be no CR/LF characters which are not part of a field value ) and has the proper record terminator, field terminator and subfield delimiter. The expected values are RT - ASCII code 29 (hex = 0x1D), FT - 30 (hex=0x1E), SD - 31 (hex=0x1F). For more info see http://malete.org/Doc/IIF section "*creating proper IIF from WinIsis". *Best regards, Rado* *