* Baljkas Family <baljkas@mts.net> wrote:
I took a look at the records in detail.
Thank you. I've been making very slow progress getting data translated.
I think you must be right in that the non-ASCII characters definitely need to be replaced. Is there any other way you can replace the non-ASCII characters first?
I think I'll try modifying Koha's import script to accept MARC XML files. This way, I might simply sidestep the issue by removing two conversion steps.
If you could send a sample of the same (or other) records in their original format off listserv, I can see if another method might work.
The majority of the data I've converted seems to import correctly. I don't know if it was valid MARC, but that has not prevented the rest from importing, which is what I'm concerned about.
P.S. You really shouldn't use the $g in 100 in the way that you did. That's not what it was intended for.
I'm a bit new to this; is there a better place to put it? Ideally, I'd like to include as much information as possible, and keep the data normalized, but I get the impression that MARC and Koha weren't designed for that. -- Scott