Thursday, September 14, 2006 17:47 CDT Hey, Huck! (always wanted to be able to say that) In quick response to your e-mail question, the problem is neither bad data nor bad user. :-D The data just isn't quite MARC yet. The examples you provided are what are usually called a tagged MARC format. That is, the field tags are more or less easily identifiable and readable. What Koha needs to be able to import is a different format, for sake of distinction let's call it true MARC. In true MARC, records are alphanumeric strings and are significantly less easy for us to read. The first of the two records you gave would probably look something like this (begging pardon, because if I try to include a sample of true MARC, it'll integrate into the message in weird ways): 0####pam||2200###|a|4500<directory follows next>2D9864EF82F011D39D6900902791E909 OrP1AA20030402121324.0741003s1975 nyua j 001 0 eng 74022464 /AC0531008339(IMchF)fol00141393DLCDLCICrlFP91.B66001.56Bolian, Polly. Symbols : the language of communication / written and illustrated by Polly Bolian.New York :Watts, 1975 60 p. :$ill. ;$22 cm A First book Defines symbols, describes their evolution and meaning, and discusses their importance in the communication of ideas. 3-6 Communication Juvenile literature Signs and symbolsJuvenile literature Communication Signs and symbols OrP1AA 001.5 BOL T0025935 FSC@aR p10.00 001.5 B63 (The directory, BTW, is the part of the MARC record that makes it possible to put into a matrix or table, telling how many spaces of data belong to each fixed and variable field (fields and counts).) Anyway, Huck, see if you can find something that looks more like this textstring in your file outputs. You should be able to open it to check in a simple text editor (Notepad, Wordpad, etc.). It may be possible -- and necessary -- to use other tools to transform your MicroLif file into true MARC. If you need more help, feel free to write me off listserv and I'll see what I can do quickly to assist. Cheers, Steven F. Baljkas library tech at large Koha neophyte Winnipeg, MB, Canada ============================================================ From: Huck <dhuckaby@paasda.org> Date: 2006/09/14 Thu PM 04:05:35 CDT To: koha@lists.katipo.co.nz Subject: [Koha] Follett guidance.. The server that housed our Follett system..has died.. I was able to keep it up long enough to do the MARC21 export... which gave me a Microlif.001 file. When I attempt to upload this into Koha it goes to http://<servername>/cgi-bin/koha/import/breeding.pl and gives a The Connection was reset while the page was loading. I have also tried doing a Lif-Marc conversion with 'MarcRTP'... which gives me output such as this: ST=p, TY=a, BL=m, EL= , DCF=i, LRR= 001 $ $2D9864EF82F011D39D6900902791E909 003 $ $OrP1AA 005 $ $20030402121324.0 008 $ $741003s1975 nyua j 001 0 eng 010 $ a $ 74022464 /AC 020 $ a $0531008339 035 $ a $(IMchF)fol00141393 040 $ acd $DLC$DLC$ICrlF 050 0 $ ab $P91$.B66 082 $ a $001.56 100 1 $ a $Bolian, Polly. 245 10 $ abc $Symbols :$the language of communication /$written and illustrated by Polly Bolian. 260 $ abc $New York :$Watts,$1975. 300 $ abc $60 p. :$ill. ;$22 cm. 490 0 $ a $A First book 500 $ a $Includes index. 520 $ a $Defines symbols, describes their evolution and meaning, and discusses their importance in the communication of ideas. 521 2 $ a $3-6 650 0 $ ax $Communication$Juvenile literature. 650 0 $ ax $Signs and symbols$Juvenile literature. 650 1 $ a $Communication. 650 1 $ a $Signs and symbols. 852 $ ahpx9 $OrP1AA$001.5 BOL$T0025935$FSC@aR$p10.00 900 $ a $001.5 B63 ST=n, TY=a, BL=m, EL=1, DCF= , LRR= 001 $ $2D9864F082F011D39D6900902791E909 003 $ $OrP1AA 005 $ $20030402121107.0 008 $ $730102s1959 nyu 000 0 eng 010 $ a $ 59006359 /L 035 $ a $(IMchF)fol01371277 040 $ ac $DLC$DLC 050 0 $ ab $HM258$.H3 082 $ a $301.243 100 1 $ ad $Hall, Edward Twitchell,$1914- 245 14 $ a $The silent language. 250 $ a $[1st ed.] 260 $ abc $Garden City, N.Y.,$Doubleday,$1959. 300 $ ac $240 p.$22 cm. 650 0 $ a $Intercultural communication. 852 $ ahpx $OrP1AA$001.54 HAL$T0025936$FSC@aR 900 $ a $001.54 HAL but attempting to upload this file...ends in the same error page coming up. Is it bad data or bad user =) ?? _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha ============================================================