Marion, A well documented migration from Follett to Koha is here http://openilsvt.pbworks.com/FrontPage . I found the pdf of the marc record migration strategy when I was doing my migration and it helped me (once I understood the examples they give which probably made perfect sense in their system, but are a little vague). I hadn't known there was a write up of the whole process. Hope it helps. Ask questions if you need to. There have been a few of us lately who migrated, so we might be able to help. By the way, after you have things migrated, there is a problem with the bar code filter called "T prefix." I have a bug out there that doesn't have a very high priority, so it hasn't been fixed, but I detail part of the fix in the bug report: http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=3724 . It has to do with the fact that Follett's barcodes are of the form "T 6543" when you scan in the book (if you ordered them like I did), but in the system they are recorded as T0006543 (seven numbers total after the T). Check the bug if this applies to you. Martin Martin Brenner Head Librarian Whitfield School St. Louis MO 63141 USA 2010/5/22 Msgr. Marion J. Makarewicz <marmak3261@att.net>
Randy,
I’m hoping to move a small school library from Follett to Koha on a Fedora 12 system. The responses to the thread so far are enlightening. I’ve gotten pretty far from just lurking and searching the archives and various install docs and wikis. Along the way I have learned quite a lot of about sed and perl to adapt a Follett export to an xml file of the biblio data to Koha. I’m almost there but running into problems doing a bulk adding of items. I don’t think I quite have the required framework fully understood. This http://wiki.koha.org/doku.php?id=here helped me get started. I hope to work on the Zebra search capacity. I’m running into problems getting it to run as a daemon. Fedora implements daemons a bit different from Debian and that is a new level I have to understand.
I’ve installed MARCedit under wine, but haven’t really been able to devote time to effectively using that to migrate our data.
I will look into the Follett ODBC drivers that were suggested since I am very familiar with Access and that will help me work with the circulation and patron info.
I’m a self-taught linux guy, learned mainly by doing and installing a Linux Terminal Server Project system at a small private school. This http://www.kohadocs.org/koha_diary.html really helped me understand the whole process of implementing an ILS and gave me courage to stark checking it out with the goal to free us from a yearly contract and an outmoded system.
My next step is to begin a brand new install on a Debian system and use git to keep current. I hope to document this step by step.
Lastly, I’m still trying to get a picture of the meta-issues/conflicts of the Koha project as represented by the koha.org and koha-community.org split.
Good luck.
Marion J. Makarewicz
Visitation Inter-Parish School
I am trying to help a library with a Follett ILS migrate to Koha. Can
anyone steer me to info, queries or scripts to help migrate?
MARC?
Patrons?
:Transactions?
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Randy Catlin
Beaver Crossing Community Library
402.532.3535
rcatlin at windstream.net <http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha>
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