Bulk loads of MARC records
We've just setup our Koha server and will have lots of books to add. Is there a best way to add books w/o having to type in all the data? I thinking getting creating a list of ISBNs, turning this into MARC records, and then uploading. Is the a best way to generate MARC records from a list of ISBNs? Is the a bulk upload tool for MARC records into Koha? Seems they are some old discussion items about something being worked on. -Erik -- __________________________________________________________ Sign-up for your own personalized E-mail at Mail.com http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup CareerBuilder.com has over 400,000 jobs. Be smarter about your job search http://corp.mail.com/careers
Erik Peterson said:
Is the a best way to generate MARC records from a list of ISBNs?
Maybe. You'd probably want to feed the ISBN's through a Z39.50 client that's been pointed at a Z39.50 server, like the one at the Library of Congress (http://www.loc.gov/z3950/). Even that is a manual process, but would still save a lot of typing. And you're going to need to type in all your holdings information (date accessioned, barcode, price, location, etc.) for each item, since that doesn't come with the general MARC record.
Is the a bulk upload tool for MARC records into Koha? Seems they are some old discussion items about something being worked on.
If you have an ISO2709 format file of MARC records, you can use the bulkmarcimport.pl script, found in the misc directory. But first you will need to do your MARC to Koha mapping and check it on the admin page. -- Stephen Hedges Skemotah Solutions, USA www.skemotah.com -- shedges@skemotah.com
Sunday, October 6, 2003 22:44 CDT Hi, Erik, I know Stephen H and Joshua F have responded -- so they may know that what I'm about to suggest checking out doesn't work (I haven't been able to try it out) -- but back on August 12, 2003, John Voth wrote the Koha listserv with what would seem to be a solution to your problem (all except the caveat that you would still need to find some way to input all catalogue specific info like the holdings data, acq date, etc.; you might be able to map these into rarely-used MARC fields and then try a global import of those fields -- if Koha would support that kind of global change). Anyway, John Voth's original message read as follows: ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Voth" <jvoth@shaw.ca> To: <koha@lists.katipo.co.nz> Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2003 2:06 PM Subject: [Koha] MARC importing tool?
Howdy!
I've developed a couple of programs that I have used to aid me in populating the library database.
The first program takes a raw scan of a book's EAN (ie:9781575212784) and converts it into the ISBN (ie:1575212781).
The second program takes a list of ISBN's and attempts to retrieve the ARC record for each title from the LoC.
I have successfully used these two programs to obtain MARC records on approximately 4000 titles so far. I think it took about 40 minutes to poll the LoC and save all the responses to a file. [snip]
Regards, John ===========================
Hope this helps, Cheers, Steven F. Baljkas library tech at large Koha neophyte Winnipeg, MB, CANADA
Is there a best way to add books w/o having to type in all the data? I thinking getting creating a list of ISBNs, turning this into MARC records, and then uploading. sounds sensible
Is the a best way to generate MARC records from a list of ISBNs? I don't know about "best", but I've been working on a Perl script that reads a list of isbns from a file, fetches the MARC records from LOC and combines them into one large MARC file...eventually I would like to be able to add holdings info, etc., but for now that's all it does. Note that I haven't tested it with more than a few dozen isbns, but more should be ok. If you're interested let me know.
Joshua
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