re-importing books, duplicate barcodes
I have imported a large pile of books already. Now I'm going to import another pile, except that there are lots of duplicate books. All books have barcodes in the marc file, so I want to test for duplicity on that field. If there is a duplicate, I want to update the existing book with new information. Can anyone give me some detailed instructions on how to do this? The last time I looked, I think it was possible, but a little confusing. Thanks. -- Tim -- View this message in context: http://koha.1045719.n5.nabble.com/re-importing-books-duplicate-barcodes-tp57... Sent from the Koha-general mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
Hi Tim, have you checked http://manual.koha-community.org/3.14/en/catadmin.html#recordmatchingrules yet? Which are the steps you are having trouble with? Regards, Fabio 2014/1/8 magmatic <magmatic@timkoop.com>
I have imported a large pile of books already. Now I'm going to import another pile, except that there are lots of duplicate books. All books have barcodes in the marc file, so I want to test for duplicity on that field. If there is a duplicate, I want to update the existing book with new information.
Can anyone give me some detailed instructions on how to do this? The last time I looked, I think it was possible, but a little confusing.
Thanks.
-- Tim
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Thanks for the link, Fabio. I tried making a barcode matching rule, but it doesn't seem to work, because when I tried staging Marc records for import, I got this: 5068 records in file 0 records not staged because of MARC error 5068 records staged 0 records with at least one match in catalog per matching rule "barcode" 5067 item records found and staged This tells me that nothing matched the barcode check. This is my record matching rule for barcodes: Matching rule code: barcode Description: Checks for the same barcode Match threshold: 100 Record type: Bibliographic record Match points: Search index: barcode Score: 101 Match points components: Tag: 952 Subfields: p Offset: 0 Length: 0 Normalization rule: Does that look right? -- Tim -- View this message in context: http://koha.1045719.n5.nabble.com/re-importing-books-duplicate-barcodes-tp57... Sent from the Koha-general mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
You're welcome Tim. Yes it looks right to me. Are there any differences between the current and incoming barcodes (e.g. hyphens)? Is your bibliographic index fully updated? I would check for those. Lastly, it could be worth trying the match checks, even though I never needed them so I can't help much, sorry. Fabio
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