[Koha] Issues with biblio import into Koha

[Fischer, Katrin]

Hi,

I think what you see could be related to how the matching works.
It uses Zebra - so in order for Zebra to find the matching record, the record has to be indexed first. If you import multiple records in one batch import, that might not be the case at the moment the import is looking for a matching record.

In my experience it works best with all items on one record or importing all
bibliographic records without duplicates and without items in a first batch and
then the records with items in a second step.

Hope that helps,

Katrin

> -----Original Message-----
> From: koha-bounces at lists.katipo.co.nz [mailto:koha-
> bounces at lists.katipo.co.nz] On Behalf Of Olugbenga Adara
> Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2013 3:08 PM
> To: Olugbenga Adara; koha-user
> Subject: Re: [Koha] Issues with biblio import into Koha
> 
> This is now really getting weird.
> 
> The second copies Marc file has 2902 records. When this file is staged, it
> says 500 records were not matched. I split the file into 6 files of which 5
> have 500 records each and the last with 402 record.
> 
> Staging each of these files always says 60 records not
> matched, totaling 360 compared with the earlier 500.
> 
> I now split one of the 500 records Marc file into 100s each and tried
> importing again. For each file it says 20 records not matched, making 100
> that will not be matched compared to 60 if i import the 500 record file
> once.
> 
> Am I experiencing a bug?
> 
> As usual, any pointers / help would be appreciated
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Olugbenga Adara
> 
> 
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> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Olugbenga Adara <gbengaadara at yahoo.com>
> > To: koha-user <koha at lists.katipo.co.nz>
> > Cc:
> > Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2013 2:11 AM
> > Subject: [Koha] Issues with biblio import into Koha
> >
> > Hello all,
> >
> > This has got me stumped!
> >
> > I am trying to import some set of bib records into Koha totaling about
> 5300.
> > About 2900 of these records have two items while the remaining has
> > just one item.
> >
> > Using MarcEdit, I have created two MARC files, the first with the
> > first or only copies of the records, while the 2nd has the records having
> only the 2nd copy.
> >
> > I created a unique 001 field for each record and then created a record
> > matching rule based on 001 (Local-number). After importing the MARC
> > file of the 1st copy, I rebuild the zebra index before importing
> the Marc file for the second copy.
> >
> > Now the problem is that is that during the second copies import, it
> > says about 500 of the records were not matched, matching the
> > remainder. I had first tried this with a title match but got a similar
> > result. I checked that the records not matched actually exist in the Koha
> database with the correct 001 value.
> > I don't understand why some records do not match and some do.
> >
> > The database is fresh with just only one previous bib in it before the
> imports.
> >
> > Can anyone please point me in the right direction to sort this out? Or
> > a better way to do the import?
> >
> > I am running Koha 3.10.4 on debian squeeze (package install)
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Olugbenga Adara
> >
> >
> > Skype: gbengaadara
> > Blog: http://gbengaadara.blogspot.com
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