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On a similar subject, I'm often annoyed at having to wait for the MARC editor to load and then clicking on multiple tabs to edit all the fields I want. It's too slow for quickly upgrading records or doing batches, so I do my editing, including adding items, outside of Koha and then use bulkmarcimport. I'd much prefer editing a record in something like MARCMaker format, except for maybe the fixed fields, which could be presented similar to how OCLC displays them. Would it be possible to create a simpler MARC editor for Koha that is just a record in MARCMaker format in an text input field? I'm just learning Perl, but maybe some day I'll tackle this feature.
I think you can use MarcEdit, http://oregonstate.edu/~reeset/marcedit/html/index.php But only on windows. Bye Zeno Tajoli CILEA - Segrate (MI) tajoliAT_SPAM_no_prendiATcilea.it (Indirizzo mascherato anti-spam; sostituisci quanto tra AT con @)
MarcEdit does only work on windows at this point. If you are a Mac Only organization (I work for one, I don't make the rules) It was well worth the 500 dollars I spent on a pc laptop to use this program. Darla Darla Grediagin District Librarian Bering Strait School District Unalakleet, Alaska Web Address : http://bssdonline.org/course/view.php?id=51 Blog: http://aklibrarian1.edublogs.org/ OPAC: http://opac.bssd.org:8181/cgi-bin/koha/opac-search.pl Zeno Tajoli wrote:
Hi
On a similar subject, I'm often annoyed at having to wait for the MARC editor to load and then clicking on multiple tabs to edit all the fields I want. It's too slow for quickly upgrading records or doing batches, so I do my editing, including adding items, outside of Koha and then use bulkmarcimport. I'd much prefer editing a record in something like MARCMaker format, except for maybe the fixed fields, which could be presented similar to how OCLC displays them. Would it be possible to create a simpler MARC editor for Koha that is just a record in MARCMaker format in an text input field? I'm just learning Perl, but maybe some day I'll tackle this feature.
I think you can use MarcEdit, http://oregonstate.edu/~reeset/marcedit/html/index.php
But only on windows.
Bye
Zeno Tajoli CILEA - Segrate (MI) tajoliAT_SPAM_no_prendiATcilea.it (Indirizzo mascherato anti-spam; sostituisci quanto tra AT con @)
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On 3/9/07, Darla Grediagin <dgrediagin@bssd.org> wrote:
MarcEdit does only work on windows at this point. If you are a Mac Only organization (I work for one, I don't make the rules) It was well worth the 500 dollars I spent on a pc laptop to use this program.
Thanks for the feedback. The command line version of MARCEdit to break/make records works just fine under Linux with mono, but I eschew mono and try to use open source when possible. For a short time I used yaz-marcdump to convert back and forth between raw MARC and line format, but recently I wrote a little script in perl using a MARC::File module to convert records to a modified MARCMaker format for editing. This way I can script a lot of the editing on batches. I edit all my records outside of Koha before import including adding holdings information. That's not really the problem. What I'm wondering is if I have a record for an item in the system already, can I edit the record outside of Koha and then overlay my edited record over top of the one already in the system. I'm particularly wondering about this for batch editing and global changes. If this is possible with bulkmarcimport.pl, what is matched on to decide what record gets overlayed? Many of the books I'm cataloging are too old to have ISBN/ISSN/LCCN. --Jason
Jason Ronallo wrote:
What I'm wondering is if I have a record for an item in the system already, can I edit the record outside of Koha and then overlay my edited record over top of the one already in the system. I'm particularly wondering about this for batch editing and global changes. If this is possible with bulkmarcimport.pl, what is matched on to decide what record gets overlayed? Many of the books I'm cataloging are too old to have ISBN/ISSN/LCCN.
Hi Jason Yep that feature has just been written for the Kapiti District Libraries here in NZ. Its in acceptance testing at the moment. But how it works is you load your edited record into the reservior, then go to cataloging, search for the record, you will find the catalogue copy and your reservior copy. You can then choose to merge them, which gives you a screen where you can choose the fields you want. Here are some screen shots which illustrate better. http://katipo.co.nz/gallery/album205/Workflow_screens and http://katipo.co.nz/gallery/album205/build_cat_record I have just added a feature which lets you select all of the reservoir record so you can do a replace of everything easy. So it doesnt allow for batch editing, you would need to edit bulkmarcimport to do taht yourself, or better yet write a new one. But it does allow for safely updating a MARC record with another one, without trashing any local data. Chris
When I do a report on 'issues by category' I get a total of 1466 items. A note here; I only get results if I don't check the branch - we have only one branch, main, and if I do check that, I get only zero's. So, if I don't check that I get a total of 1466 items issued. We have a total of 6627 items. When I do a report on 'books not issued' it comes up with a total of 5700. Maybe I am all wrong, but in my world, 6627 - 5700 = 927, not 1466. (Total minus items not issued is number of items issued) So, is my thinking wrong or is there something wrong with the report? And what can I do about it? Is there any way to test it? Thanks, Marty
Marty Jongepier a écrit :
When I do a report on 'issues by category' I get a total of 1466 items. A note here; I only get results if I don't check the branch - we have only one branch, main, and if I do check that, I get only zero's. So, if I don't check that I get a total of 1466 items issued.
We have a total of 6627 items. When I do a report on 'books not issued' it comes up with a total of 5700. Maybe I am all wrong, but in my world, 6627 - 5700 = 927, not 1466. (Total minus items not issued is number of items issued)
So, is my thinking wrong or is there something wrong with the report? And what can I do about it? Is there any way to test it?
Thanks,
Marty
Hi, Sorry to answer that late. Maybe I am misunderstanding, but, the fact is that sometimes, one book can be issued many times. So that if you have issued 10 times Harry Potter, then it is counted as 10 issues. But only one item was issued. Would not that be a good explanation ? -- Henri-Damien LAURENT
Thanks, Yes, that would possibly explain it. I was assuming it was a moment view, so that if I run a report on a Monday night, it would give me a report on what was out that day. Items very, very rarely get issued more than once a day. I am still a bit puzzled though. Is there anywhere an explanation about the reports, that is about the only part of Koha that keeps confusing me. I always can go into Mysql and do queries there if needed, but I like the reports idea. Marty -----Original Message----- From: Henri-Damien LAURENT [mailto:laurenthdl@alinto.com] Sent: Saturday, April 14, 2007 9:37 AM To: Marty Jongepier Cc: koha@lists.katipo.co.nz Subject: Re: [Koha] Reports issues Marty Jongepier a écrit :
When I do a report on 'issues by category' I get a total of 1466 items. A note here; I only get results if I don't check the branch - we have only one branch, main, and if I do check that, I get only zero's. So, if I don't check that I get a total of 1466 items issued.
We have a total of 6627 items. When I do a report on 'books not issued' it comes up with a total of 5700. Maybe I am all wrong, but in my world, 6627 - 5700 = 927, not 1466. (Total minus items not issued is number of items issued)
So, is my thinking wrong or is there something wrong with the report? And what can I do about it? Is there any way to test it?
Thanks,
Marty
Hi, Sorry to answer that late. Maybe I am misunderstanding, but, the fact is that sometimes, one book can be issued many times. So that if you have issued 10 times Harry Potter, then it is counted as 10 issues. But only one item was issued. Would not that be a good explanation ? -- Henri-Damien LAURENT
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