[Koha] Bulk imports and authorities

[Elaine Bradtke]

In Koha 3.2 there appear to be two routines in migration tools for
importing. . .
One is called bulkauthimport.pl and the other is bulkmarcimport.pl
which has an -authorities flag.
What's the difference?  What should I use?

We've created our authorities using MARC21 and what we're working with
are MARCXML files.

Also, is there a good reason this doesn't display in the gui interface?
Thanks again,
Elaine
On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 3:28 PM, Ian Walls
<ian.walls at bywatersolutions.com> wrote:
> Elaine,
>
> I don't believe the order of import matters too much, since the
> bulkmarcimport script won't automatically do the linking for you.  They will
> need to be loaded separately, since you have to use a different switch to do
> biblios than authorities. (-a for authorities, -b or nothing for biblios)
> You'll need to run link_bibs_to_authorities.pl after both have been imported
> to get them connected.  This will take a pretty long time, depending on the
> number of biblios you have.
> Hope this helps!
>
> -Ian
>
> On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 10:22 AM, Elaine Bradtke <eb at efdss.org> wrote:
>>
>> A question of timing. At present, our authorities records are separate
>> from the bibliographic data.  I had thought of importing them in two
>> batches.  If I do that, which comes first, the authorities, or the
>> bibliographic records?
>> Or, do I have to put them all into the same import?  Can do. . .  just
>> a little intimidated by the thought. . .
>>
>> --
>> Elaine Bradtke
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Elaine Bradtke
Data Wrangler
VWML
English Folk Dance and Song Society | http://www.efdss.org
Cecil Sharp House, 2 Regent's Park Road, London NW1 7AY
Tel    +44 (0) 20 7485 2206 ext 36
Mob +44 (0) 7789 373982
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Registered Company No. 297142
Charity Registered in England and Wales No. 305999
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"Writing about music is like dancing about architecture"
--Elvis Costello (Musician magazine No. 60 (October 1983), p. 52)