[Koha] bulk import .pl script vs webinterface
Joshua Ferraro
jmf at liblime.com
Tue Aug 26 00:53:47 NZST 2008
On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 4:42 AM, Jochum van der Heide
<jochum.vanderheide at lifehope.om.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Nicole pointed out to me that I can use the "MARC Import (staging)" on the
> librarian webinterface, to import multiple records, which seems to work
> very well for me. I've seen on the list many people use the commandline
> tool bulkmarcimport.pl. What is the difference between the two?
The primary differences are that the staging tool give you:
1. de-duplication capabilities based on defined match points you set up
in Administration
2. a chance to verify matches in the staging area prior to actually importing
records.
3. rollback capability, so that you can remove a specific batch of
records (bibs and
items) rather than delete everything in your collection like the -d
flag to bulkmarcimport does.
Note that if you prefer to work on the command line, there are
command-line versions
of the staging tool as well.
Hope that helps.
Cheers,
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> -Jochum
>
>
> Nicole Engard wrote the following on 21/08/2008 15:20:
>> I don't know :( you'll have to ask the entire Koha list. I've never
>> done the command line version.
>>
>>
>> ---
>>
>> Nicole C. Engard
>> Open Source Evangelist, LibLime
>> (888) Koha ILS (564-2457) ext. 714
>> nce at liblime.com <mailto:nce at liblime.com>
>> AIM/Y!/Skype: nengard
>>
>> http://liblime.com
>> http://blogs.liblime.com/open-sesame/
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 10:18 AM, Jochum van der Heide
>> <jochum.vanderheide at lifehope.om.org
>> <mailto:jochum.vanderheide at lifehope.om.org>> wrote:
>>
>> Ah, thanks for that link. Now I read it more clearly it indeed says
>> that it does multiple records.
>>
>> What's the difference with the command line tool?
>>
>> -Jochum
>>
>> Nicole Engard wrote the following on 21/08/2008 14:56:
>>
>> Yes, search does not work on that site :( that's why we're
>> looking to move it to a better place.
>>
>> This is the bulk import document:
>> http://sites.google.com/a/liblime.com/koha-manual/Home/Table-of-Contents/Tools/Tools--Stage-MARC-Records
>>
>>
>> It does not tell you about where to put the barcode though - I
>> don't know the answer to that.
>>
>>
>> ---
>>
>> Nicole C. Engard
>> Open Source Evangelist, LibLime
>> (888) Koha ILS (564-2457) ext. 714
>> nce at liblime.com <mailto:nce at liblime.com> <mailto:nce at liblime.com
>> <mailto:nce at liblime.com>>
>> AIM/Y!/Skype: nengard
>>
>> http://liblime.com
>> http://blogs.liblime.com/open-sesame/
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 9:52 AM, Jochum van der Heide
>> <jochum.vanderheide at lifehope.om.org
>> <mailto:jochum.vanderheide at lifehope.om.org>
>> <mailto:jochum.vanderheide at lifehope.om.org
>> <mailto:jochum.vanderheide at lifehope.om.org>>> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Nicole
>>
>> Nicole Engard wrote the following on 21/08/2008 12:21:
>>
>> You may find some helpful instructions in the manual:
>> http://sites.google.com/a/liblime.com/koha-manual/
>>
>> Actually I did use that document to set all the parameters.
>> Lots of
>> helpful info there. Although the search function is not working
>> really well (try searching for barcode). Also I couldn't find any
>> info on the bulkmarcimport.pl tool, but did have some helpful
>> info
>> about MarcEdit.
>>
>> -Jochum
>>
>> I'll let others
>>
>> answer your best practices questions.
>>
>>
>> ---
>>
>> Nicole C. Engard
>> Open Source Evangelist, LibLime
>> (888) Koha ILS (564-2457) ext. 714
>> nce at liblime.com <mailto:nce at liblime.com>
>> <mailto:nce at liblime.com <mailto:nce at liblime.com>>
>> <mailto:nce at liblime.com <mailto:nce at liblime.com>
>>
>> <mailto:nce at liblime.com <mailto:nce at liblime.com>>>
>>
>> AIM/Y!/Skype: nengard
>>
>> http://liblime.com
>> http://blogs.liblime.com/open-sesame/
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 6:54 AM, Jochum van der Heide
>> <jochum.vanderheide at lifehope.om.org
>> <mailto:jochum.vanderheide at lifehope.om.org>
>> <mailto:jochum.vanderheide at lifehope.om.org
>> <mailto:jochum.vanderheide at lifehope.om.org>>
>> <mailto:jochum.vanderheide at lifehope.om.org
>> <mailto:jochum.vanderheide at lifehope.om.org>
>> <mailto:jochum.vanderheide at lifehope.om.org
>> <mailto:jochum.vanderheide at lifehope.om.org>>>> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm about to import our 6000 records from an old DOS based
>> library
>> system
>> to Koha 3.0. I understand the best way to do this is
>> using the
>> misc/migration_tools/bulkmarcimport.pl tool after creating
>> the marc file
>> from csv with MarcEdit. Currently all the fields I could
>> export from our
>> old system were the following:
>>
>> Catalogue Record Number (barcode field?)
>> Title 245a
>> Series 440a
>> Author 100a
>> Subject 650a
>> Call number (local) 082ab
>> ISBN 20a
>> Publishing - Name 260b
>> Publishing - Place 260a
>> Publishing - Date 260c
>> Extra 653a?
>> GMD (Item type) 942c
>>
>> What is the best field to use for the barcode? Also
>> the Extra
>> field has
>> some additinal info about the subject of the book. I was
>> thinking this
>> would perhaps fit in 653a.
>>
>> I noticed that by default there are a number of MARC
>> fields
>> mandatory. For
>> example, what is the 000 leader field used for and why
>> is it
>> mandatory?
>> Should I be using those fields or is it save to not
>> make them
>> mandatory?
>>
>> BTW, are there any instructions available on using the
>> bulkmarkimport tool?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> -Jochum
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