[Koha] Some questions on importing authorities

[Manos PETRIDIS]

Thank you Ramiro, I wasn't aware of the possibility to use the staff interface! 

I suppose it is done through "Home › Tools › Stage MARC records for import", or I should say I hope its is done so, because I tried reading the data file mentioned: the upload woked fine (100% uploaded in a few seconds). I then proceded to "Stage for import", that remained at 0% for quite a while, then ended sucessfully. 
MARC staging results :
>293141 records in file
>0 records not staged because of MARC error
>293141 records staged
>Did not check for matches with existing records in catalog
>0 item records found and staged
From "Home › Tools › Manage staged MARC records" I can see that the records themselves seem to be properly formed and in Greek, so this covers my questions on both syntax and encoding.


I haven't encountered yet where is one to specify that they're authority records and not biblio ones. I expect that it occurs when one tries to import the staged records, in "Home › Tools › Manage staged MARC records › Batch XYZ" however no such option exists. I can select a framework to use/apply to the items I import, but no mention of authorities.

Could it be that I need to be at a relase later/greater than v3.08.16?

Best regards,
Manos Petridis



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> From: Ramiro Uviña <ramirouvia at gmail.com>
>To: Manos PETRIDIS <egpetridis at yahoo.com> 
>Cc: "koha at lists.katipo.co.nz" <koha at lists.katipo.co.nz> 
>Sent: Monday, August 5, 2013 6:16 PM
>Subject: Re: [Koha] Some questions on importing authorities
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>Hi Manos:
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>I can't tell you about agnostic encoding (we are using UTF8), but authorities works with: http://www.loc.gov/marc/authority/
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>You can import auth records from staff interface, but you should change to authorities instead of bibs.
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>Regards,
>Ramiro
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>2013/8/5 Manos PETRIDIS <egpetridis at yahoo.com>
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>Having
>>found recent copies of the greek standard terms (they're in http://www.nlg.gr/www/el/node/56
>>), I'm looking into the matter of importing them into koha (v3.08.16).
>>
>>I understand that this is something done from the command line only, I have
>>some questions though on the process:
>>a) Is it
>>critical to use some specific operating system user, as in the case of Zebra
>>rebuilds?
>>b) Are
>>ISO2709 authorities files MARC-flavour agnostic in general? Can the same file
>>be used in MARC21 and UNIMARC?
>>c) Are ISO2709
>>authorities files encoding agnostic in general? Need one specify the encoding used
>>during import?
>>d) If the
>>import is performed twice (either using the same file, or using successive versions
>>from the same source, as in the case of NLG), will we end-up having multiple
>>identical entries?
>>e) Are
>>there any specific system preferences that one should check/modify prior to import?
>> 
>>For the
>>curious/adventurous, here are two automatic translations of the page mentioned
>>above:
>>http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=el&sl=el&tl=en&prev=_dd&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nlg.gr%2Fwww%2Fel%2Fnode%2F56
>>http://www.microsofttranslator.com/bv.aspx?from=el&to=en&a=http://www.nlg.gr/www/el/node/56
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>>The files
>>to use are:
>>http://www.nlg.gr/www/sites/default/files/NLG_auth_01_13_0.zip
>>(apparently the initial 2013 version)
>>http://www.nlg.gr/www/sites/default/files/NLG_auth_02_13.rar
>>(apparently the latest version).
>>
>>Kind Regards,
>>Manos Petridis
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