reading through the various tutorials and getting started documents is still leaving me with the impression that adding an item into a library is a very cumbersom process (manually search for a MARC record, save it, load it into koha, add an item) has anyone made a simple script that would let me feed it a list of books (by scanned ISBN codes for example) and have it do everything under the covers to get it added? I know that I've seen smaller personal library-type applications that had this sort of capibility. I have some books that I have in multiple formats (paperback, hardcover, plus several e-book formats), how can I tag these appropriately? the MARC records that I've found seem to be just for the hardcover edition. I am not a trained librarian, just someone with several hundred titles in e-book version and a few thousand paper books looking to get some sort of sanity around things. I've gone through all the user guides and tutorials listed on the koha-community site, is there another place I should look for info and guidence to setup a small library like mine? David Lang
Op zondag 19 december 2010 23:40:21 schreef david@lang.hm:
has anyone made a simple script that would let me feed it a list of books (by scanned ISBN codes for example) and have it do everything under the covers to get it added? I know that I've seen smaller personal library-type applications that had this sort of capibility.
I have a script that doesn't quite do this, but can easily be modified to do so. The purpose of my script is to run through a Koha database and, using the ISBN, merge or replace the data in Koha with the data from the Z39.50 source. The script I have is the 'merge-in-z3950.pl' that can be found in the Catalyst public git repository, in the pnf_import branch, or via http is at: http://git.catalyst.net.nz/gw?p=koha.git;a=tree;f=import;h=aad6d2327623363e9... It should be a fairly easy task for someone with Perl knowledge to add an option to read a file containing ISBN numbers. -- Robin Sheat Catalyst IT Ltd. ✆ +64 4 803 2204
Op maandag 20 december 2010 00:43:40 schreef Robin Sheat:
I have a script that doesn't quite do this, but can easily be modified to do
Actually, one thing I wasn't clear on: You'll probably want to use the function that outputs a MARC file, and then use Koha's bulkmarcimport script to actually put the result into the Koha system. -- Robin Sheat Catalyst IT Ltd. ✆ +64 4 803 2204
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