Fw: From CDS/ISIS to Koha
Hello, has had anybody an experience with conversion from CDS/ISIS database to Koha? We have following problem: import from iso2709 from WinISIS doesn't made correct records. Number of imported records is correct but differents fields are not recognized correctly. I.e. first numbers of iso record: 008620000000002650004500003000500... etc are considered as field. It is possible that Koha does not recognize ^ indicator of subfield when CDS/ISIS database is made on Windows? Our Koha runs on Linux. Please help! Regards Ing. Danica Zendulková Slovak Republic
There's some information at http://www.kohadocs.org/CDS_ISIS_to_Koha.html Stephen On 3/30/07, Danica Zendulková <zendulkova@cvtisr.sk> wrote:
Hello, has had anybody an experience with conversion from CDS/ISIS database to Koha? We have following problem: import from iso2709 from WinISIS doesn't made correct records. Number of imported records is correct but differents fields are not recognized correctly. I.e. first numbers of iso record: 008620000000002650004500003000500... etc are considered as field. It is possible that Koha does not recognize ^ indicator of subfield when CDS/ISIS database is made on Windows? Our Koha runs on Linux. Please help! Regards
Ing. Danica Zendulková Slovak Republic
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Hi, Denica! On 3/30/07, Danica Zendulková <zendulkova@cvtisr.sk> wrote:
Hello, has had anybody an experience with conversion from CDS/ISIS database to Koha? We have following problem: import from iso2709 from WinISIS doesn't made correct records. Number of imported records is correct but differents fields are not recognized correctly. I.e. first numbers of iso record: 008620000000002650004500003000500... etc are considered as field. It is possible that Koha does not recognize ^ indicator of subfield when CDS/ISIS database is made on Windows? Our Koha runs on Linux. Please help! Regards
Yes, ^ is not a valid subfield indicator as per ISO2709. By default the export in not quite standard. When exporting the data from WinISIS you have to make sure it is not limited to 80 chars per line (there should be no CR/LF characters which are not part of a field value ) and has the proper record terminator, field terminator and subfield delimiter. The expected values are RT - ASCII code 29 (hex = 0x1D), FT - 30 (hex=0x1E), SD - 31 (hex=0x1F). For more info see http://malete.org/Doc/IIF section "*creating proper IIF from WinIsis". *Best regards, Rado* *
Hello Danica, in Winisis 1.5 you can configure the length of the line (instead of 80 characters for Marc you should put "0") and the subfield delimiter (\31). To reformat our databases we have also created a script who reads the CDS/ISIS database (with Openisis), reformat the records and puts out correct Marc21 records. Regards Veronica Lencinas Cordoba, Argentina --- Radoslav Kolev <radoslav@kolev.info> escribió:
Hi, Denica!
On 3/30/07, Danica Zendulková <zendulkova@cvtisr.sk> wrote:
Hello, has had anybody an experience with conversion from
CDS/ISIS database to
Koha? We have following problem: import from iso2709 from WinISIS doesn't made correct records. Number of imported records is correct but differents fields are not recognized correctly. I.e. first numbers of iso record: 008620000000002650004500003000500... etc are considered as field. It is possible that Koha does not recognize ^ indicator of subfield when CDS/ISIS database is made on Windows? Our Koha runs on Linux. Please help! Regards
Yes, ^ is not a valid subfield indicator as per ISO2709. By default the export in not quite standard. When exporting the data from WinISIS you have to make sure it is not limited to 80 chars per line (there should be no CR/LF characters which are not part of a field value ) and has the proper record terminator, field terminator and subfield delimiter. The expected values are RT - ASCII code 29 (hex = 0x1D), FT - 30 (hex=0x1E), SD - 31 (hex=0x1F).
For more info see http://malete.org/Doc/IIF section "*creating proper IIF from WinIsis".
*Best regards, Rado* *
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Hello, thanks for yours suggestions you sent me. The WinISIS export settings sent by Veronica and Rado helped and database is converted successfully yet. We are now configuring the Koha codepage: Slovak language contains interesting diacritics: cstzáéíäô :-) The characters contains diacritics in converted records are not displayed correctly. Has anybody had any good idea? Thanks Danica
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Danica Zendulková -
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Veronica Lencinas