On 2004-06-17 21:01:41 +0100 Milton Calnek <milton@calnek.com> wrote:
i have all these books and i was hoping that i could build a list of isbn's and get a script from koha to do the real work of importing them into my library. my understanding is that the z39.50 protocol is supposed to do this/help with it.
Copy the zm.pl example from "man MARC::Doc::Tutorial" and edit databaseName and connect details. Then, replace the last block with something like: open(OUTFILE,">>zresults.marc"); for (my $ii = 1; $ii <= $numrec; $ii++) { my $zrec = $rs->record($ii); my $mrec = MARC::Record->new_from_usmarc($zrec->rawdata()); print $mrec->as_formatted, "\n\n"; print OUTFILE $mrec->as_usmarc(); } close(OUTFILE); Once run on some ISBNs (probably want to use xargs to run it with batches of numbers read from a file), you can upload zresults.marc to your breeding farm. You will still need to add the books. -- MJR/slef My Opinion Only and possibly not of any group I know. http://www.ttllp.co.uk/ for creative copyleft computing Help hack the EuroParl! http://mjr.towers.org.uk/proj/eurovote/