OCLC Connexion users on Mac OS
Hello Collective Wisdom, Is anyone an OCLC Connexion user that also happens to use Mac OS X? We're a Mac school (♥︎) and the desktop client only runs on Windows. But we learned today that the website's export function, which worked fine with our prior ILS Millennium, only exports records in MARC8 encoding and not UTF-8, so Koha doesn't work with it. All our work around options look bleak: using something like WINE to run the client on a Mac, asking our staff to dual boot or run a VM, exporting to a file instead & importing that into Koha. They'll work but they're much more inconvenient than the web client. If anyone has a better idea I'd be grateful. Best, Eric Phetteplace Systems Librarian California College of the Arts libraries.cca.edu | vault.cca.edu 510.594.3660 2>/dev/null
On 24 June 2016 00:00:19 CEST, Eric Phetteplace <ephetteplace@cca.edu> wrote:
learned today that the website's export function, which worked fine with our prior ILS Millennium, only exports records in MARC8 encoding and not UTF-8, so Koha doesn't work with it.
It's been a while since I supported Mac OS X but I'm pretty sure that the marc2xml terminal tool should be installable on it. That should convert MARC 8 files to MARC XML ones that koha can import. Hope that helps! -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
Thanks, MJ. I tried converting an OCLC export to MARCXML using both marc2xml and a custom pymarc script, both imports choked and failed in Koha. I'm not sure where the issue lies, if it was just an artifact of one of the records I chose in testing. For the list's benefit, we're trying out a workflow that looks like this: - use the "export to a file" option to download a MARC-8 file locally - use the Stage MARC Records for Import tool to import from the file - choose MARC-8 encoding in that tool's options It worked in my initial tests but we'll see how well staff take to it, and if the records have encoding problems. It's definitely a lot more work than simply exporting directly into the ILS. Best, Eric Phetteplace Systems Librarian California College of the Arts libraries.cca.edu | vault.cca.edu 510.594.3660 2>/dev/null On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 10:47 AM, MJ Ray <mjr@phonecoop.coop> wrote:
On 24 June 2016 00:00:19 CEST, Eric Phetteplace <ephetteplace@cca.edu> wrote:
learned today that the website's export function, which worked fine with our prior ILS Millennium, only exports records in MARC8 encoding and not UTF-8, so Koha doesn't work with it.
It's been a while since I supported Mac OS X but I'm pretty sure that the marc2xml terminal tool should be installable on it. That should convert MARC 8 files to MARC XML ones that koha can import.
Hope that helps!
-- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
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