[Koha] Koha without MARC

Gautam John gautam at prathambooks.org
Wed May 28 14:45:16 NZST 2008


Thank you Jose. Will play around with this script.

Best,

Gautam

2008/5/28 José Miguel Parrella Romero <joseparrella at gmail.com>:
> Gautam John escribió:
>> Hello:
>>
>> I've been looking to use Koha without MARC support. Is this possible
>> in Koha 3 and what are the upsides and downsides to not using MARC?
>>
>> The reason I ask is that it'll be so much easier to import books into
>> the system, from our current Excel sheets, rather than using MARC or
>> so I assume.
>
> You can export your Excel sheets in CSV, and then map each column into a
> MARC field/subfield -- I wrote a csv2marc.pl script which does the job.
>
>  http://lists.katipo.co.nz/public/koha/2007-November/012750.html
>
> Using Perl, you can migrate from almost anything to MARC.
>
> HTH,
> Jose
>



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