Scott: I haven't thought in your approach. I'm currently working from what CDS/ISIS (DOS version) exports that is very similar to ISO2709. I've decoded the information and unloaded it in a hash array, where I'm merging my databases and generating MARC records with MARC::Record. Andres Scott Scriven wrote:

* Andres Tarallo <tarallo@ort.edu.uy> wrote:

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We're currently finishing our mapping to import our database (CEPAL catalog in DOS/ISIS) to Koha. We have a question, and we want to know the best solution to feed data for bulkmarcimport.pl.

For what it's worth, it's much easier to write MARC XML files than regular MARC files, and tends to be less error-prone. You can use these with bulkmarcimport.pl with only slight modifications, once you've installed MARC::File::XML for perl.

The LoC has much more info about the format:

http://www.loc.gov/standards/marcxml/

Personally, I'm converting my records to MODS format, then to MARC XML (using a LoC stylesheet). This is even easier for me, though it isn't as powerful.

I put some scripts online, as examples. I haven't done very good mapping, but it's a start:

http://toykeeper.net/tmp/koha/