Greetings! Im working on how to migrate to Koha from another ILS. Ive finished installing Koha but just wondering if anyone could help me on ways of migrating to koha. what are things that i might need to do or know before continuing from this point. Kind Regards, Richard W. Maileseni
Richard Maileseni schreef op do 24-10-2013 om 12:28 [+1300]:
Im working on how to migrate to Koha from another ILS. Ive finished installing Koha but just wondering if anyone could help me on ways of migrating to koha. what are things that i might need to do or know before continuing from this point.
That's not really an easy question to give a simple answer, there's a lot involved. However, in a nutshell: * Get the biblio and item data out of the existing system in a usable format. Preferably MARC, but if you can only do CSV, then use that. * Poke at the data (I use Perl scripts for this[0]) until it fits what Koha needs, in MARC format. * Load the data into Koha, find mistakes, repeat. * Do the same for the borrower and circulation data. It's also worth asking here if anyone has expertise in the particular system that you're migrating from. I should really write a wiki page on this. [0] The tools I use are here: https://gitorious.org/koha-toolbox/catalyst-koha-migration-toolbox -- Robin Sheat Catalyst IT Ltd. ✆ +64 4 803 2204 GPG: 5FA7 4B49 1E4D CAA4 4C38 8505 77F5 B724 F871 3BDF
Robin Sheat schreef op do 24-10-2013 om 14:22 [+1300]:
[0] The tools I use are here: https://gitorious.org/koha-toolbox/catalyst-koha-migration-toolbox
Actually, I just gave it its own project, here: https://gitorious.org/koha-migration-toolbox -- Robin Sheat Catalyst IT Ltd. ✆ +64 4 803 2204 GPG: 5FA7 4B49 1E4D CAA4 4C38 8505 77F5 B724 F871 3BDF
Hi Robin, Thanks for that, Im researching on a migration from Spydus if any anyone has done this please could you let me know or direct me where I could get help on this. Thanks again! Cheers! On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 2:22 PM, Robin Sheat <robin@catalyst.net.nz> wrote:
Richard Maileseni schreef op do 24-10-2013 om 12:28 [+1300]:
Im working on how to migrate to Koha from another ILS. Ive finished installing Koha but just wondering if anyone could help me on ways of migrating to koha. what are things that i might need to do or know before continuing from this point.
That's not really an easy question to give a simple answer, there's a lot involved.
However, in a nutshell: * Get the biblio and item data out of the existing system in a usable format. Preferably MARC, but if you can only do CSV, then use that. * Poke at the data (I use Perl scripts for this[0]) until it fits what Koha needs, in MARC format. * Load the data into Koha, find mistakes, repeat. * Do the same for the borrower and circulation data.
It's also worth asking here if anyone has expertise in the particular system that you're migrating from.
I should really write a wiki page on this.
[0] The tools I use are here: https://gitorious.org/koha-toolbox/catalyst-koha-migration-toolbox
-- Robin Sheat Catalyst IT Ltd. ✆ +64 4 803 2204 GPG: 5FA7 4B49 1E4D CAA4 4C38 8505 77F5 B724 F871 3BDF
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