Exporting Information from Follett to Koha
Hi All, We have been transitioning from our old Follett DB to Koha over the past year. We are almost ready to kick Follett to the curb, but there is still a lot of information contained in the database that we want to move over to Koha. All of the MARC data has transferred fine, but there has been trouble with some of the item level data like location, etc. Has anybody gone through a similar move (Circulation Plus/Catalog Plus) to Koha? Thanks, Joe Fahs IT Consultant Linde Group, Inc. 510-847-6662 jfahs@stmchs.org
Hi Joe, Check contribs.koha.org for a script that we used to help with this. I don't know that it handles all of the details you want moved, but it may be a starting place. I took a script that was generated using MarcEdit and modified it to fit our needs, in particular moving the item info from the default location that Follett uses to the default location in koha (852 to 952 if I remember right) and parsing out the info that Follett strung together in text fields. Good luck, Doug Dearden From: koha-bounces@lists.katipo.co.nz [mailto:koha-bounces@lists.katipo.co.nz] On Behalf Of Fahs,Joe Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 2010 9:38 AM To: koha@lists.katipo.co.nz Subject: [Koha] Exporting Information from Follett to Koha Hi All, We have been transitioning from our old Follett DB to Koha over the past year. We are almost ready to kick Follett to the curb, but there is still a lot of information contained in the database that we want to move over to Koha. All of the MARC data has transferred fine, but there has been trouble with some of the item level data like location, etc. Has anybody gone through a similar move (Circulation Plus/Catalog Plus) to Koha? Thanks, Joe Fahs IT Consultant Linde Group, Inc. 510-847-6662 jfahs@stmchs.org
Joe, we have instructions we used to migrate our libraries from Circ Plus to Koha on our wiki, http://openilsvt.pbworks.com/, especially in the User Guide (http://docs.google.com/View?id=dcccx9zm_3htvhwzgc). Stephanie Chase Director, Stowe Free Library vokal, the Vermont Organization of Koha Automated Libraries Fahs,Joe wrote:
Hi All,
We have been transitioning from our old Follett DB to Koha over the past year. We are almost ready to kick Follett to the curb, but there is still a lot of information contained in the database that we want to move over to Koha. All of the MARC data has transferred fine, but there has been trouble with some of the item level data like location, etc.
Has anybody gone through a similar move (Circulation Plus/Catalog Plus) to Koha?
Thanks,
Joe Fahs IT Consultant Linde Group, Inc. 510-847-6662 jfahs@stmchs.org
-- Stephanie Chase Director Stowe Free Library Post Office Box 1029 90 Pond Street Stowe, Vermont 05672 802.253.6145
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