Re[2]: [Koha] Hello from the Museum's Library In Arizona!
What record format is used?--is the data easily transferred to and from "commercial" library databases? Ernie Mannering Director, Technology & Information Services School District No. 91 (Nechako Lakes) Voice 1.250.567.2284 Fax 1.250.567.4639 Web http://www.sd91.bc.ca ____________________Reply Separator____________________ Subject: Re: [Koha] Hello from the Museum's Library In Arizona! Author: "Ben Ostrowsky" <ostrowb@tblc.org> Date: 5/22/2001 5:19 AM
Wondering though how we get the information from LC into the database to be accessed by the software!
I'm not actually using Koha yet, but my understanding is: The records would typically be typed by hand, although you could probably write some Perl scripts to import existing records. If you have MARC records, you could use MARC.pm to do this.
Is this MARC record?
Koha does not currently use the MARC format. Ben _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 09:15:24AM -0700, emannering@mail.sd91.bc.ca said:
What record format is used?--is the data easily transferred to and from "commercial" library databases?
Hi All, The data is stored in a series of mysql tables. Data is fairly easily transferrable to the system. If you can get the data out of ur system and into tab separated text you can get it into Koha. I know some of the list members have written some importers. Importing from Marc is being worked on as we speak. I have no immediate plans to work on making koha MARC compliant, but having MARC importers, and exporters would be cool. I hope this helps answer your questions. Chris -- Chris Cormack Programmer 025 500 789 Katipo Communications Ltd chris@katipo.co.nz www.katipo.co.nz
I have no immediate plans to work on making koha MARC compliant, but having MARC importers, and exporters would be cool.
If we can achieve this, I don't see how the internal data storage would matter much.... I think there are MARC routines out there, possibly even in perl. Question: has anyone sat down and sorted out how close Koha's existing records are to MARC output (or Z39.50, for that matter)? Nick ...still interested in being able to feed bulk ISBN numbers in for populating the database off Natl' Library (LC, etc) z39/marc access
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What record format is used?--is the data easily transferred to and from "commercial" library databases?
We have transferred *from* a commercial library database. It did require having someone that could "map" fields from one to the other. Cheers Rachel _____________________________________________________________ Rachel Hamilton-Williams Katipo Communications WEBMISTRESS ph 021 389 128 or +64 04 934 1285 mailto:rachel@katipo.co.nz PO Box 12487, Wellington http://www.katipo.co.nz New Zealand
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