On April 11, Paul Poulain answered a question from Joshua Ferraro about importing MARC records in 1.9.x:
- the script to migrate from a previous ILS is still to be done.
Do we have any projected date for when this will be completed? We'd like very much to start testing Koha with our data, but we're not eager to re-catalogue 200,000+ items! If the MARC import utility is going to be delayed for very long, then we'll have to devise some other work-around to get our MARC data into 1.9.x. Has anyone else found a way to move their MARC data into Koha? (For instance, how did Dombes Abbey do it?) Stephen Hedges Nelsonville Public Library
Stephen Hedges wrote:
On April 11, Paul Poulain answered a question from Joshua Ferraro about importing MARC records in 1.9.x:
- the script to migrate from a previous ILS is still to be done.
Do we have any projected date for when this will be completed? We'd like very much to start testing Koha with our data, but we're not eager to re-catalogue 200,000+ items! If the MARC import utility is going to be delayed for very long, then we'll have to devise some other work-around to get our MARC data into 1.9.x. Has anyone else found a way to move their MARC data into Koha?
It's not planned. In fact, i think it should be quite easy to do, with the C4/Biblio.pm library in $koharoot directory. With NEWnewbiblio and NEWnewitem you can import a MARC::Record in the active DB. with the C4/Breeding.pm script you should have sample to read a MARC::Record file and manage it (C4/Breeding.pm is a new file only in CVS : check cvs to be sure you've it. It comes from marcimport.pl script in 1.9.2 release)
(For instance, how did Dombes Abbey do it?)
They don't migrate, they begin with an ILS ! -- Paul POULAIN Consultant indépendant en logiciels libres responsable francophone de koha (SIGB libre http://www.koha-fr.org)
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