Good evening all, Thanks to those who responded to my original question about inputting roughly 3,000 MARC records into Koha w/ the Staged Import Tool. I've followed the suggestions given to me, and produced a (what I thought to be) correct .mrk file. However, Koha sees only one record and that one has an error in it. Can someone spot the error, because my file checks out against the example I was given. Thanks, Zach Tucker IT Director, Nelson Memorial Library
Hi Zachary, I ran your file of records through a program called MarcEdit. It created a huge file that identifies the errors. I copied the summary of the errors: Errors: 020-ind2: Invalid data ($) Indicator should be undefined. 020- No subfields have been defined in this record and it appears that there should be. 100-ind1: Invalid data (\) Indicator can only be 013. 100-ind2: Invalid data ($) Indicator should be undefined. 100- No subfields have been defined in this record and it appears that there should be. 245-ind1: Invalid data (\) Indicator can only be 01. 245-ind2: Invalid data ($) Indicator can only be 0-9. 245- No subfields have been defined in this record and it appears that there should be. 260-ind2: Invalid data ($) Indicator should be undefined. 300-ind2: Invalid data ($) Indicator should be undefined. 300- No subfields have been defined in this record and it appears that there should be. I suggest you download MarcEdit from http://people.oregonstate.edu/~reeset/marcedit/html/downloads.html and use this tool to identify the errors in your records. Becky _____ From: koha-bounces@lists.katipo.co.nz [mailto:koha-bounces@lists.katipo.co.nz] On Behalf Of Zachary Tucker Sent: Tuesday, October 06, 2009 9:14 PM To: koha@lists.katipo.co.nz Subject: [Koha] MARC Data Import Followup Good evening all, Thanks to those who responded to my original question about inputting roughly 3,000 MARC records into Koha w/ the Staged Import Tool. I've followed the suggestions given to me, and produced a (what I thought to be) correct .mrk file. However, Koha sees only one record and that one has an error in it. Can someone spot the error, because my file checks out against the example I was given. Thanks, Zach Tucker IT Director, Nelson Memorial Library
To those who might be wondering how I ended up fixing the problem - all I needed to do was take compile the mrk file into a mrc file and add an exta space between the field at the separator. Now, I am attempting to add one (1) item per biblio record. I am looking to do this by simply writing a PHP script to do it en masse following a simple template. However, I have a small question about the barcode. Is there some way I can have Koha generate a unique barcode for each biblio record (based on title, ISBN, etc.)? Thanks, Zach
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