Tuesday, August 12, 2003 17:55 CDT John, WOW!!! I'm sure we'd all find those programs helpful. I know I'd sure be interested. Do you think you could post links to the Koha wiki site? Cheers, Steven F. Baljkas library tech at large Koha neophyte Winnipeg, MB CANADA ----- 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 MARC 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.
The only program I need to find/write/beg/borrow/steal is one that will take all these MARC records and import them into KOHA. Is there anything out there that does this already?
Regards, John
PS: I can make the above mentioned two programs available if there's enough interest.
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