[Koha] More questions for migrating to koha

[Joshua Ferraro]

I can answer the leader question: MARC::Record will define a default
leader automatically (tho you can specify a specific one if you like).

Joshua

On Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 12:47:56PM -0500, Baljkas Family wrote:
> Wednesday, September 15, 2004   12:43 CDT
> 
> Hi, Stephen, et al.,
> 
> Admittedly, I don't understand scripting, but doesn't the schema you gave miss definition of the Leader and the fixed fields (especially 008) which are critical to the record being valid MARC?
> 
> Or is that already in MARC::Record? 
> 
> Just confused,
> 
> Steven F. Baljkas
> library tech at large
> Koha neophyte
> Winnipeg, MB, Canada
>  
> > From: "Stephen Hedges" <shedges at skemotah.com>
> > Date: 2004/09/15 Wed AM 04:38:41 CDT
> > To: "Andres Tarallo" <tarallo at ort.edu.uy>
> > CC: koha at lists.katipo.co.nz
> > Subject: Re: [Koha] More questions for migrating to koha
> > 
> > Hi, Andres -
> > 
> > Andres Tarallo said:
> > > ...we are trying to understand the way
> > > bulkmarcimport.pl handles  MARC records, in order to feed it with
> > > properly loaded records. It's not clear for me the way i have to build
> > > my MARC records
> > 
> > You're writing a script using MARC::Record if I recall.  So what you
> > should do is open a file early in the script to save your records,
> > something like:
> > 
> > open OUTFILE, "+>bibs" or die "Cannot open output file (bibs)";
> > 
> > Then go through the process of putting each record together tag by tag. 
> > Something like:
> > 
> > $tag100 = MARC::Field->new(100,'','','a'=>$author);
> > $record->append_fields($tag100);
> > 
> > Then when you have all the tags built add the record to your output file:
> > 
> > print OUTFILE $record->as_usmarc();
> > 
> > [The perl lines above assume you are using MARC21, change accordingly for
> > UNIMARC.]
> > 
> > Now you have an iso2709 file ("bibs") that you can load using
> > bulkmarcimport.pl.
> > 
> > -- 
> > Stephen Hedges
> > Skemotah Solutions, USA
> > www.skemotah.com  --  shedges at skemotah.com
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