Tim McMahon - West Liberty Public Library said:

The "Migrating to Koha" document mentions using bulkmarcimport.pl as a starting point to make scripts for cleaning copyright dates and to allow imports of more than one subject per record. I was wondering if anyone already had scripts to do these things.

OK, I'll share. The attached script (import) is the one used at Nelsonville Public Library. As you can tell from a quick look, it's pretty messy. Things have been added as needed and commented out as they were no longer needed. It ain't pretty, but it works. The script starts by taking the name of a (iso2709) file of MARC records and building a new file (called 'bibs') after splitting the existing holdings tag into two separate tags. (This allows some holdings information to be mapped to biblioitems, and other information to be mapped to items.) This new file is then run through the relevant portion of the original bulkmarcimport.pl script. After that the script does some clean-up operations on the data that was just loaded into the old-Koha tables. Finally, the script deletes the files to clean the directory and prepare it for the next day's file of records. (NPL uses a separate utility for cataloging and building the import file, then ftp's the file to the Koha server and runs the import script. If somebody forgets to ftp the current day's file, and the pervious day's file still exists, then the previous day's records are loaded a second time when import is run.) -- Stephen Hedges Skemotah Solutions, USA www.skemotah.com -- shedges@skemotah.com