[Koha] Authorities help

[Brian Harrington]

Chris Nighswonger wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 9:38 PM, kdr at ckls.org <kdr at ckls.org> wrote:
>> The Koha set up is somewhat clunky, but is at least a beginning in trying
>> to make things standardized. The first improvement I would suggest is the
>> ability to import LC authority headings into Koha...
> 
> I think this is a great enhancement idea. Something similar to the
> marc import tool or possibly similar to the z3950 biblio search.
> Would you mind opening an enhancement request at http://bugs.koha.org
> so that we can keep track of it and possibly garner some sponsorship
> for it?

Currently there's bulkauthimport.pl, which is good for one-time imports 
from the command line.  I've created a heavily modified version for 
loading the weekly updates from LC, and would be happy to clean it up 
and submit it as a patch.  I've been a little reluctant to do it so far 
because it's MARC21 and LC specific (relying on the 010 field), but if 
other folks would find it useful....

Brian

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Brian Harrington
Content and Resource Development Coordinator
Project MUSE
The Johns Hopkins University Press
brian at jhu.edu