Hello all, I am a Unix admin and Perl programmer by trade, but know very little about library science :) I have a friend who has built a community library in Ethiopia, and I have volunteered to help with the catalog. So far I've installed Debian Linux and Koha 3.18 and done the basic configs of adding a library, and a "superlibrarian", but now I'm stuck with an XL spreadsheet of ~10K books which I have to import. I've written a script that will throw all my ISBNs against Worldcat's Classify, but that returns MARCXML which, I guess, I would have to translate into MARC21. Is this the best way? Am I barking up the wrong tree? I've found documents that walk you through manually querying with one ISBN and then manually importing into Koha, but I need to automate this as much as possible for bulk queries/imports. Has anyone done this? TIA richf -- View this message in context: http://koha.1045719.n5.nabble.com/Intro-and-req-for-help-tp5831095.html Sent from the Koha-general mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
Hi! You can use MARCEdit's Delimited Text Translator to do this. Here is a link to help you do that: http://manual.koha-community.org/3.2/en/marceditexcel.html Cheers! -- View this message in context: http://koha.1045719.n5.nabble.com/Intro-and-req-for-help-tp5831095p5831098.h... Sent from the Koha-general mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
Hi Richard, Richard Fernandez schrieb am 07.03.2015
I've written a script that will throw all my ISBNs against Worldcat's Classify, but that returns MARCXML which, I guess, I would have to translate into MARC21.
bulkmarcimport.pl has an option to import MARCXML. See http://perldoc.koha-community.org/misc/migration_tools/bulkmarcimport.html HTH, Mirko
Greetings, http://marcedit.reeset.net/ MarcEdit is a Windows utility that can help you easily convert. It also can help you pre-validate the data and make sure it is good before importing. http://bywatersolutions.com/2012/02/29/altering-marc-records-in-marcedit-bef... I'm sure there are other great videos on the bywatersolutions website that might be helpful too. Also, you might want to make sure the data has the appropriate holdings fields too. :) http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Holdings_data_fields_%289xx%29 Plus if you want to write your own. Coding is a fun challenge, right? :) http://search.cpan.org/~gmcharlt/MARC-XML-1.0.3/lib/MARC/File/XML.pm http://search.cpan.org/~gmcharlt/MARC-Record-2.0.6/lib/MARC/Record.pm GPML, Mark Tompsett
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