Hello, I am Michael Williams, Network Supervisor for Haywood County Schools, located in North Carolina, USA. One of our Media Specialists has pointed me to your site and is very excited about the software. We are currently fighting an old DOS based system, trying to get it to run on a linux server and she thought this might be a solution. Does this support importing MARC records, and has anyone converted to this from an exsisting system. Michael
Hello Michael, We are the library that commissioned Koha, and we transferred, like you, from an old DOS system. It does not currently support importing MARC records. I hope in the near future that someone will write that functionality for it, but right now, we've got other priorities. Rosalie Date sent: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 14:24:46 -0400 From: Michael Williams <michael@haywood.k12.nc.us> To: koha@lists.katipo.co.nz Subject: [Koha] Intro
Hello, I am Michael Williams, Network Supervisor for Haywood County Schools, located in North Carolina, USA. One of our Media Specialists has pointed me to your site and is very excited about the software. We are currently fighting an old DOS based system, trying to get it to run on a linux server and she thought this might be a solution.
Does this support importing MARC records, and has anyone converted to this from an exsisting system.
Michael
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I've just started looking at Koha, and I'm very impressed! Runs very nicely on a Solaris Intel set-up, and was a breeze to install. The folks at Katipo are to be congratulated! I had been thinking along the same lines regarding importing MARC records into the system. Although I haven't gotten much beyond just thinking about it, it ought to be fairly easy, since there is at least one existing Perl module (Marc.pm) that can flip MARC records into a tagged text format, and vice versa. With just a little bit of tweaking it ought to be possible to get that module to output MARC records in a format that is loadable to the appropriate tables in Koha. The calling script could be extended with DBI functionality to go ahead and load the records, without having that be an extra step in the process. In the same vein, exporting records from the Koha database and converting them into a MARC format should be fairly painless. Anyone game? I'll start looking into myself, but if anyone else has ideas or suggestions along these lines, let us hear from you! Thanks a lot, Jeff Hall Technical Analyst VTLS Inc. Customer Services ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Williams" <michael@haywood.k12.nc.us> To: <koha@lists.katipo.co.nz> Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2000 2:24 PM Subject: [Koha] Intro
Hello, I am Michael Williams, Network Supervisor for Haywood County Schools, located in North Carolina, USA. One of our Media Specialists has pointed me to your site and is very excited about the software. We are currently fighting an old DOS based system, trying to get it to run on a linux server and she thought this might be a solution.
Does this support importing MARC records, and has anyone converted to this from an exsisting system.
Michael
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Hi all Passing on some experience we had with greenstone: My understanding is that z39.50 and MARC are quite closely tied, because in practise, z39.50 is a search interface which returns MARC records. You also need to be careful not to embed the meaning of different MARC fields too deeply into your implementation, because the of the USMARC/UKMARC issues.
I had been thinking along the same lines regarding importing MARC records into the system. Although I haven't gotten much beyond just thinking about it, it ought to be fairly easy, since there is at least one existing Perl module (Marc.pm) that can flip MARC records into a tagged text format, and vice versa. With just a little bit of tweaking it ought to be possible to get that module to output MARC records in a format that is loadable to the appropriate tables in Koha. The calling script could be extended with DBI functionality to go ahead and load the records, without having that be an extra step in the process. In the same vein, exporting records from the Koha database and converting them into a MARC format should be fairly painless.
Anyone game? I'll start looking into myself, but if anyone else has ideas or suggestions along these lines, let us hear from you!
Thanks a lot,
Jeff Hall Technical Analyst VTLS Inc. Customer Services
----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Williams" <michael@haywood.k12.nc.us> To: <koha@lists.katipo.co.nz> Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2000 2:24 PM Subject: [Koha] Intro
Hello, I am Michael Williams, Network Supervisor for Haywood County Schools, located in North Carolina, USA. One of our Media Specialists has pointed me to your site and is very excited about the software. We are currently fighting an old DOS based system, trying to get it to run on a linux server and she thought this might be a solution.
Does this support importing MARC records, and has anyone converted to this from an exsisting system.
Michael
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