[Koha] Importing records

[BWS Johnson]

Salvete!

>> Koha allows you to add an arbitrary number of z3950 sources and
search them
>> individually or in arbitrary groups. But the type of "shotgun"
approach you
>> describe is not currently supported by Koha.
>>
>> I suspect it is not the kind of workflow a professional cataloger
would
>> undertake, mainly because there is no oversight of the quality or
accuracy
>> of data injected into the database. Occasionally ISBN's do get
reused, so
>> without other criteria or human review, you could conceivably import
bogus
>> data. That being said, I like the idea of a mass import by ISBN from
text
>> file, breaking it apart into two results:
>>
>> a group of staged records where ISBN is confidently matched, and
>> a text file with the subset of unmatched or ambiguous ISBNs


I'd love to see something go one better than this and check the record
lengths. The caveat is that sometimes fields are unnecessarily repeated
where a cataloguer has accidentally cut and pasted too often. This has
always seemed like the sort of brute force operation that a computer
could perform with relative ease and a person could lend an eye to
later, much like the authorities deduplication feature that eXC has
worked out. 
Two better would include ranking. Both relevancy ranking and optional
community feedback that ranked by Library. For instance, it was very
easy for me to tell staff to check MaineInfoNet first since that
consortium had a lot of very high quality records that were of local
interest, so there was high recall and high precision.

Cheers,
Brooke 
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