[Koha] CDS/ISIS to MARC21 (Koha) issue

[David Cook]

Hi Alexandru:

Someone may have already answered your question, but I'll offer some advice
in the event that they haven't.

1) Consult the Library of Congress as your guide:
http://www.loc.gov/marc/bibliographic/. If you're unsure of what you read
there, consult someone well-versed in MARC21 and descriptive cataloguing
standards (such as AACR2 or RDA).
2) "Duplicate" or rather "repeatable" fields are not a problem for MARC21,
if the field is marked as (R) in the relevant section of the website I
mentioned above. In the case of 7xx fields, it is very common to have
multiple entries (since they're "added" entries).
3) In fact, by concatenating multiple 7xx author entries into one single
100, you will be creating a problem. The 100 field is a main entry field. It
should only ever have one author in it.
4) Depending on your data, you might not actually have or need a 100 field
in a record. 

With that established, why are you considering "duplicate" fields do be a
problem?

I'm not familiar with ISIS's export format(s). Are you using a CSV dump and
then using the "Delimited Text Translator" tool in MarcEdit?

David Cook
Systems Librarian
Prosentient Systems P/L
ABN 31 078 409 168
72/330 Wattle St, 
Ultimo NSW 2007
tel: 02 92120899
fax: 02 92120885
dcook at prosentient.com.au

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Date: Mon, 13 May 2013 13:29:52 +0300
From: Alexandru Constantin <upb.alexander at gmail.com>
To: koha at lists.katipo.co.nz
Subject: [Koha] CDS/ISIS to MARC21 (Koha) issue
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Dear colleagues,

I'm trying to convert (using MARCEdit) my approx. 10 000 entry ISIS
database to MARC21 for import in Koha.
I'm encountering the following problem:

Some of the tags for each book are duplicate; for example, for multiple
authors, the record will look smth like this:
...
=702  John
=702  Mary
=702  Ann
...

I would like to merge this fields into the MARC21 100 field like this:
...
=100 \\$a John, Mary, Ann
...

Unique fields haven't posed problems, but those duplicates do.
I would really appreciate some help.

Best regards ^_^,

-- 

Alexandru Constantin
Student
Computer Science @ University Politehnica of Bucharest

http://crasheralex.me


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