[Koha] importing authorities

Ata ur Rehman ata.rehman at gmail.com
Wed Dec 9 02:24:33 NZDT 2009 

Dear Nicole

We used some sample authority files in a training.  Plz find these file at
the following link.
http://lisolutions.org/downloads/index.php?act=view&id=44

May be helpful

Regards,

Ata

On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 5:36 PM, Nicole Engard <nengard at gmail.com> wrote:

> Anyone have any tips for finding a collection of authorities I can try
> to import?  Can anyone else import records from LOC?
>
> Thanks
> Nicole
>
> On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 8:52 PM, Nicole Engard <nengard at gmail.com> wrote:
> > You all rock and helped me with the content to write an awesome
> > tutorial for others!!
> >
> > Now - for some reason I keep getting that 0 records are importing.
> > I'm going to the LOC site (authorities.loc.gov) and exporting a record
> > from there - I tried in both MARC formats listed - so now I'm up for
> > suggestions on how to get an authority record or two to import :)
> >
> > Nicole
> >
> > On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 8:43 PM, Jesse <pianohacker at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> 2009/12/4 Nicole Engard <nengard at gmail.com>
> >>>
> >>> Also - as someone who's new to this - where is my @INC file?
> >>>
> >>> 2009/12/4 Nicole Engard <nengard at gmail.com>:
> >>> > You mean the C4 in Koha?
> >>> >
> >>> > home/nengard/kohaclone/C4 -- or is there another C4?
> >>> >
> >>> > On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 5:39 PM, Walls, Ian <Ian.Walls at med.nyu.edu>
> >>> > wrote:
> >>> >> Nicole,
> >>> >>
> >>> >>
> >>> >> Hmmm... What directory is the parent to your installation's C4?  You
> >>> >> need to get that in your @INC. Something like:
> >>> >>
> >>> >> export PERL5LIB=/path/to/C4's/parent
> >>> >>
> >>> >> before you run bulkauthimport.pl should do the trick (the -I does
> the
> >>> >> same thing, but just for that perl call)
> >>> >>
> >>> >> Good luck!
> >>> >>
> >>> >>
> >>> >> Ian
> >>> >>
> >>> >>
> >>> >>
> >>> >> On Dec 4, 2009, at 17:18, "Nicole Engard" <nengard at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>> >>
> >>> >>> Bleh :(
> >>> >>>
> >>> >>> nengard at debian:~/kohaclone/misc/migration_tools$ perl -I
> >>> >>> /Users/nengard/kohaclone bulkauthimport.pl -file
> >>> >>> /Users/nengard/Desktop/authoritymarc.mrc
> >>> >>> Can't locate C4/Context.pm in @INC (@INC contains:
> >>> >>> /Users/nengard/kohaclone /etc/perl /usr/local/lib/perl/5.10.0
> >>> >>> /usr/local/share/perl/5.10.0 /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/share/perl5
> >>> >>> /usr/lib/perl/5.10 /usr/share/perl/5.10 /usr/local/lib/site_perl .)
> at
> >>> >>> bulkauthimport.pl line 18.
> >>> >>> BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at bulkauthimport.pl line 18.
> >>> >>> You have new mail in /var/mail/nengard
> >>> >>>
> >>> >>> Nicole
> >>> >>>
> >>> >>> On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 4:50 PM, Walls, Ian <Ian.Walls at med.nyu.edu>
> >>> >>> wrote:
> >>> >>>> Nicole,
> >>> >>>>
> >>> >>>>
> >>> >>>> Oh, that's the PERL5LIB thing.  Try this:
> >>> >>>>
> >>> >>>> perl -I /Users/nengard/kohaclone bulkauthimport.pl -file /Users/
> >>> >>>> nengard/Desktop/authoritymarc.mrc
> >>> >>>>
> >>> >>>> Assuming that path after the -I is where your kohaclone is.
> >>> >>>>
> >>> >>>>
> >>> >>>> -Ian
> >>> >>>>
> >>> >>>>
> >>> >>>> -----Original Message-----
> >>> >>>> From: Nicole Engard [mailto:nengard at gmail.com]
> >>> >>>> Sent: Friday, December 04, 2009 4:47 PM
> >>> >>>> To: Walls, Ian
> >>> >>>> Cc: Owen Leonard; Koha List
> >>> >>>> Subject: Re: [Koha] importing authorities
> >>> >>>>
> >>> >>>> Oh poo -- looks like I'm missing something I need installed --
> >>> >>>>
> >>> >>>> nengard at debian:~/kohaclone/misc/migration_tools$ perl
> >>> >>>> bulkauthimport.pl -file /Users/nengard/Desktop/authoritymarc.mrc
> >>> >>>> Can't locate C4/Context.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /etc/perl
> >>> >>>> /usr/local/lib/perl/5.10.0 /usr/local/share/perl/5.10.0 /usr/lib/
> >>> >>>> perl5
> >>> >>>> /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/perl/5.10 /usr/share/perl/5.10
> >>> >>>> /usr/local/lib/site_perl .) at bulkauthimport.pl line 18.
> >>> >>>> BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at bulkauthimport.pl line 18.
> >>> >>>> nengard at debian:~/kohaclone/misc/migration_tools$
> >>> >>>>
> >>> >>>> Hmmm
> >>> >>>>
> >>> >>>> 2009/12/4 Nicole Engard <nengard at gmail.com>:
> >>> >>>>> Thank you! I will add this to the manual and use it right now :)
> >>> >>>>>
> >>> >>>>> On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 4:40 PM, Walls, Ian <
> Ian.Walls at med.nyu.edu>
> >>> >>>>> wrote:
> >>> >>>>>> Nicole,
> >>> >>>>>>
> >>> >>>>>>
> >>> >>>>>> You'd need a MARC file (either ISO2709 or MARCXML) with the
> >>> >>>>>> authority data in it, and to navigate to the
> misc/migration_tools
> >>> >>>>>> directory for your install.  Then type:
> >>> >>>>>>
> >>> >>>>>> perl bulkauthimport.pl -file /path/to/file
> >>> >>>>>>
> >>> >>>>>> You can also use the -h flag to investigate other options.  One
> >>> >>>>>> really useful one is -m, which sets the incoming file format
> >>> >>>>>> (ISO2709 or MARCXML).
> >>> >>>>>>
> >>> >>>>>> Oh, right, and be sure you've exported your PERL5LIB, so the
> >>> >>>>>> script knows where to find the Koha Perl modules.
> >>> >>>>>>
> >>> >>>>>> Hope that's helpful!  And yes, we should absolutely package up
> >>> >>>>>> some example authorities to go with the sample catalog data and
> >>> >>>>>> patrons.
> >>> >>>>>>
> >>> >>>>>>
> >>> >>>>>> -Ian
> >>> >>>>>>
> >>> >>>>>> -----Original Message-----
> >>> >>>>>> From: Nicole Engard [mailto:nengard at gmail.com]
> >>> >>>>>> Sent: Friday, December 04, 2009 4:32 PM
> >>> >>>>>> To: Walls, Ian
> >>> >>>>>> Cc: Owen Leonard; Koha List
> >>> >>>>>> Subject: Re: [Koha] importing authorities
> >>> >>>>>>
> >>> >>>>>> Ian do you know what command I need to type and what file I need
> to
> >>> >>>>>> create to use bulkauthimport.pl?
> >>> >>>>>>
> >>> >>>>>> And Owen - yeah I think we should have some default Auth records
> we
> >>> >>>>>> can fill the system with like we do with catalog data and
> patrons.
> >>> >>>>>>
> >>> >>>>>> Nicole
> >>> >>>>>>
> >>> >>>>>> On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 4:10 PM, Walls, Ian
> >>> >>>>>> <Ian.Walls at med.nyu.edu> wrote:
> >>> >>>>>>> As far as I know, the only way currently is to use
> >>> >>>>>>> bulkauthimport.pl
> >>> >>>>>>> .  I would think it wouldn't be that difficult to modify the
> >>> >>>>>>> Stage MARC Records for Import tool to do authorities as well as
> >>> >>>>>>> biblios.  My cataloger tells me that authorities are going to
> be
> >>> >>>>>>> particularly important in RDA, so we may want to consider
> >>> >>>>>>> beefing up that end of the codebase.  I will happily look into
> >>> >>>>>>> it as I get the time.
> >>> >>>>>>>
> >>> >>>>>>> Cheers,
> >>> >>>>>>>
> >>> >>>>>>>
> >>> >>>>>>> Ian Walls
> >>> >>>>>>> Systems Integration Librarian
> >>> >>>>>>> NYU Health Sciences Libraries
> >>> >>>>>>> 550 First Ave., New York, NY 10016
> >>> >>>>>>> (212) 263-8687
> >>> >>>>>>>
> >>> >>>>>>>
> >>> >>>>>>>
> >>> >>>>>>> -----Original Message-----
> >>> >>>>>>> From: koha-bounces at lists.katipo.co.nz [mailto:koha-
> >>> >>>>>>> bounces at lists.katipo.co.nz] On Behalf Of Owen Leonard
> >>> >>>>>>> Sent: Friday, December 04, 2009 4:04 PM
> >>> >>>>>>> To: Koha List
> >>> >>>>>>> Subject: Re: [Koha] importing authorities
> >>> >>>>>>>
> >>> >>>>>>>> Is there a way to import authority records?
> >>> >>>>>>>
> >>> >>>>>>> If so, I'd love to get my hands on some MARC21 authority
> >>> >>>>>>> records. I
> >>> >>>>>>> always end up creating a couple of dummy records, and having
> >>> >>>>>>> some to
> >>> >>>>>>> import would be so much better for testing.
> >>> >>>>>>>
> >>> >>>>>>>  -- Owen
> >>> >>>>>>>
> >>> >>>>>>> --
> >>> >>>>>>> Web Developer
> >>> >>>>>>> Athens County Public Libraries
> >>> >>>>>>> http://www.myacpl.org
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> >> @INC is simply Perl's list of directories that it is looking for Perl
> >> modules in.
> >>
> >> You need to run the following, or put in your ~/.bashrc:
> >>
> >> export PERL5LIB=/home/nengard/kohaclone/
> >>
> >> Basically, Koha imports modules from the C4 module. It needs to be told
> what
> >> directory to look for the C4 directory in, however. In a dev install,
> this
> >> is your Git clone; on a standard install, it would be something like
> >> /usr/share/koha/lib/.
> >>
> >> On my machine, for instance, since my Koha git clone is at
> >> /home/jesse/projects/koha, and the C4 directory with Koha's Perl modules
> is
> >> thus at /home/jesse/projects/koha/C4, I do this:
> >>
> >> export PERL5LIB=/home/jesse/projects/koha
> >>
> >> Opted to explain too much rather than too little, hope this helps,
> >> --
> >> Jesse Weaver
> >>
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