[Koha] Question regarding MARC importing

[rafael.antonio at sapo.pt]

Hi all,

I have been looking on some comments about cataloguing and like you  
say MarcEdit is not really a good tool for structured bibliographic  
data.
In case you think useful you can allways use winisis where you can  
input records on MARC format. Recently a new version on JAVA is being  
finished which suport UTF-8. You can use these tools to create records  
and export to KOHA. If you need help feel free to ask.
Regards,

Rafael Antonio

Citando stefan <herrkandera at gmx.ch>:

> Dear Joshua
>
> we have a similar problem. Now we are working with
> http://marcpm.sourceforge.net/ since MarcEdit failed for our needs (poor
> structured bibliographic data).
>
> I think PERL should help you out (but some additional programing is needed).
>
> No easy way out ...
>
> Stefan
>
> umpajosh at yahoo.com schrieb:
>> Greetings,
>>
>> We are in the process of starting a small library for our small  
>> college. I have an Excel file with 5 columns.
>>
>> The first column is our own internal proprietary number we were  
>> using just to have a simple unique identifier, and, it wouldn't  
>> probably be a big deal if it were totally absent from the MARC  
>> record. The second column is the Library of Congress number  
>> associated with the book. The third column is the publication date.  
>> The fourth column is the author. The fifth column is the title.
>>
>> I am entirely ignorant when it comes to the MARC record format.  
>> Terry Reese was kind enough to provide me with the following  
>> information when I was stumped as to how MarcEdit could complete  
>> this conversion for me:
>>
>>
>> Field 0: 035$a = proprietary book number
>> Field 1: 090$a = LC classification number
>> Field 2: 260$c = Publication date
>> Field 3: 100$a; indicators: 10 = Author
>> Field 4: 245$a; indicators: 10 = Title
>>
>>
>> Using that information (as best as I can figure out how), and then  
>> putting the MARC file through MarcEdit's validator, I receive the  
>> following errors:
>>
>> Record #:  18
>> 001 (if defined):
>> 245 (if defined):  = Title$aOur High Calling
>> Errors:
>> 	100-ind1:  Invalid data (\)  Indicator can only be 013.
>> 	245-ind1:  Invalid data (\)  Indicator can only be 01.
>> 	245-ind2:  Invalid data (\)  Indicator can only be 0-9.
>>
>>
>> I am rather stumped. I have found several sites that elaborate on  
>> MARC file indicators, but I cannot figure out for the life of me  
>> what I need to do. The errors seem to indicate above that the  
>> 'indicator' 10 is not valid for the 'fields' of 100 or 245- but  
>> perhaps I am not reading that correctly?
>>
>> Any help would be very appreciated,
>> Joshua
>>
>>
>>
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