[Koha] Issues with biblio import into Koha

[Olugbenga Adara]

Thanks Katrin,

I actually do a full zebra indexing before importing the next batch.

Does any one know any easy way to get multiple items into a MarcEdit batch?
 
Olugbenga Adara


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----- Original Message -----
> From: "Fischer, Katrin" <Katrin.Fischer at bsz-bw.de>
> To: Olugbenga Adara <gbengaadara at yahoo.com>; koha-user <koha at lists.katipo.co.nz>
> Cc: 
> Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2013 2:15 PM
> Subject: Re: [Koha] Issues with biblio import into Koha
> 
> 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
>>  >
>>  >
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