Raphael, I cannot speak specifically to migrating from Liberty3, but it is probably similar to other migrations. You should have some means to export the records from Liberty3 in a MARC format. If not, then in a comma delimited file or other standard DB format. Terry Reese at Oregon State University has created a tool called MarcEdit that you can use to manipulate the records and convert them from the Liberty3 output to the proper Marc format for Koha. His home page is here: http://people.oregonstate.edu/~reeset/marcedit/html/index.php . Pay particular attention to getting the item info into the default location for Koha - the 952 part of the record. That is probably not where it will export from your old system. See the MarcEdit doc for particulars on how to use it. Take a look at the Koha doc section 1.4 for information about Bibliographic Frameworks and the Koha to Marc mapping, and sections 2.9 and 2.10 for info on how to import your Marc records once you have them ready using the tools I mentioned above. Of course you will also need to attend to all of the administration areas to set up your library details. Take a look at the documentation for detailed info on your options there. Section 13 contains an implementation checklist that will walk you through the necessary steps. In fact you should familiarize yourself in general with the documentation on the koha-community.org site, it will probably answer most of your questions. Hopefully that points you in the right direction. Best, Doug -----Original Message----- From: koha-bounces@lists.katipo.co.nz [mailto:koha-bounces@lists.katipo.co.nz] On Behalf Of Raphael Muonga Sent: Monday, December 13, 2010 6:08 AM To: Nicole Engard Cc: Koha; Koha Devel Subject: [Koha] Migrating data from Liberty3 to Koha 3.0 plus Sorry, if I have used a wrong blog. Me I am asking for assistance in terms of migrating from Liberty3 to Koha 3.0 and above. Anybody with this sort of experience? Thanks in anticipation. Raphael Chisanga Muonga _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha

Raphael Muonga schreef op ma 13-12-2010 om 15:07 [+0200]:

Sorry, if I have used a wrong blog. Me I am asking for assistance in terms of migrating from Liberty3 to Koha 3.0 and above.

I've done this. The guts of it are: extract the biblio records and item records as CSV files (note: liberty isn't very good about producing valid CSV file, in the end we got the best results using '~' as the field separator, with '"' around the values. Note that I've never used Liberty, so I have no idea how you go about getting the data out of it. Then, I used a fairly complex script I've written that converts CSV files into MARC using a bunch of rules. The script can be found here: http://git.catalyst.net.nz/gw?p=koha.git;a=tree;f=import/csv;h=659921c9776d6... In there there is csvtomarc.pl, which is the main script, and a handful of pnf_liberty_*.sh scripts, which are particular conversion configurations for various parts of the catalogue. If you read the documentation in csvtomarc.pl and compare that to what's in the pnf_liberty scripts, you'll hopefully be able to work it out. It's complex, but the documentation should be up to date (either read it in the source, or using 'csvtomarc.pl --man' to see it.) Keep in mind that this script expects to be run on a machine with a configured Koha install so that it can map koha field names to MARC values (although I'm thinking I may make that optional some time soon - I find myself working directly with MARC values more often than koha names.) It also has a handful of assumptions that you're working with MARC21. If that's not the case for you, you'll need to make changes. Also, a warning: this code may cause migraines. I take no responsibility if you actually try to read it :) Exactly how you do the migration will vary wildly depending on your requirements, there is no one-stop solution, it's a process that requires a lot of trial and error. -- Robin Sheat Catalyst IT Ltd. ✆ +64 4 803 2204 GPG: 5957 6D23 8B16 EFAB FEF8 7175 14D3 6485 A99C EB6D