[Koha] Import items (holdings)

[Library Guy]

Although the holdings data is all present in 952, some important data is not
dedicated to a single subfield.  For example, rather than Koha's $v for the
price, the cost is instead held in a subfield and delimited within that
subfield along with a lot of other important data.  Even MarcEdit is not
sophisticated enough to parse this and copy the data to alternate
subfields.  Does anyone know of a utility that can?

I've been rethinking Jesse's idea of importing the MARC BIBs (without
holdings) in Koha, then importing the holdings directly into the sql items
table and running the sync script (after first exporting the biblionumbers
and matching them into my exported holdings CSV, assuming that the
biblionumber or the biblioitemnumber are the key field for syncing).

Does anyone have any better ideas?

Thank you.


On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 6:04 PM, Galen Charlton
<galen.charlton at liblime.com>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 5:39 PM, Library Guy <library.guy.zero at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Good news.  I will be able to export BIBs with embedded items data, but
> in
> > field 852 rather than 952.  Would the correct preparation for import into
> > Koha be to convert all 852 fields to 952, to adjust the default MARC
> > framework for my BIBs or both?
>
> To avoid having to edit both the framework and the Zebra indexing
> rules, I suggest converting the 852s to 952s.
>
> Regards,
>
> Galen
> --
> Galen Charlton
> VP, Research & Development, LibLime
> galen.charlton at liblime.com
> p: 1-888-564-2457 x709
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>
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