On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 4:42 AM, Jochum van der Heide <jochum.vanderheide@lifehope.om.org> wrote:
Hi,
Nicole pointed out to me that I can use the "MARC Import (staging)" on the librarian webinterface, to import multiple records, which seems to work very well for me. I've seen on the list many people use the commandline tool bulkmarcimport.pl. What is the difference between the two? The primary differences are that the staging tool give you:
1. de-duplication capabilities based on defined match points you set up in Administration 2. a chance to verify matches in the staging area prior to actually importing records. 3. rollback capability, so that you can remove a specific batch of records (bibs and items) rather than delete everything in your collection like the -d flag to bulkmarcimport does. Note that if you prefer to work on the command line, there are command-line versions of the staging tool as well. Hope that helps. Cheers, -- Joshua Ferraro SUPPORT FOR OPEN-SOURCE SOFTWARE CEO migration, training, maintenance, support LibLime Featuring Koha Open-Source ILS jmf@liblime.com |Full Demos at http://liblime.com/koha |1(888)KohaILS
-Jochum
Nicole Engard wrote the following on 21/08/2008 15:20:
I don't know :( you'll have to ask the entire Koha list. I've never done the command line version.
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On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 10:18 AM, Jochum van der Heide <jochum.vanderheide@lifehope.om.org <mailto:jochum.vanderheide@lifehope.om.org>> wrote:
Ah, thanks for that link. Now I read it more clearly it indeed says that it does multiple records.
What's the difference with the command line tool?
-Jochum
Nicole Engard wrote the following on 21/08/2008 14:56:
Yes, search does not work on that site :( that's why we're looking to move it to a better place.
This is the bulk import document: http://sites.google.com/a/liblime.com/koha-manual/Home/Table-of-Contents/Too...
It does not tell you about where to put the barcode though - I don't know the answer to that.
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On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 9:52 AM, Jochum van der Heide <jochum.vanderheide@lifehope.om.org <mailto:jochum.vanderheide@lifehope.om.org> <mailto:jochum.vanderheide@lifehope.om.org <mailto:jochum.vanderheide@lifehope.om.org>>> wrote:
Hi Nicole
Nicole Engard wrote the following on 21/08/2008 12:21:
You may find some helpful instructions in the manual: http://sites.google.com/a/liblime.com/koha-manual/
Actually I did use that document to set all the parameters. Lots of helpful info there. Although the search function is not working really well (try searching for barcode). Also I couldn't find any info on the bulkmarcimport.pl tool, but did have some helpful info about MarcEdit.
-Jochum
I'll let others
answer your best practices questions.
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On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 6:54 AM, Jochum van der Heide <jochum.vanderheide@lifehope.om.org <mailto:jochum.vanderheide@lifehope.om.org> <mailto:jochum.vanderheide@lifehope.om.org <mailto:jochum.vanderheide@lifehope.om.org>> <mailto:jochum.vanderheide@lifehope.om.org <mailto:jochum.vanderheide@lifehope.om.org> <mailto:jochum.vanderheide@lifehope.om.org <mailto:jochum.vanderheide@lifehope.om.org>>>> wrote:
Hi,
I'm about to import our 6000 records from an old DOS based library system to Koha 3.0. I understand the best way to do this is using the misc/migration_tools/bulkmarcimport.pl tool after creating the marc file from csv with MarcEdit. Currently all the fields I could export from our old system were the following:
Catalogue Record Number (barcode field?) Title 245a Series 440a Author 100a Subject 650a Call number (local) 082ab ISBN 20a Publishing - Name 260b Publishing - Place 260a Publishing - Date 260c Extra 653a? GMD (Item type) 942c
What is the best field to use for the barcode? Also the Extra field has some additinal info about the subject of the book. I was thinking this would perhaps fit in 653a.
I noticed that by default there are a number of MARC fields mandatory. For example, what is the 000 leader field used for and why is it mandatory? Should I be using those fields or is it save to not make them mandatory?
BTW, are there any instructions available on using the bulkmarkimport tool?
Thanks,
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