[Koha] Having problem using UNIMARC in Z39.50 target

Laurence Rault laurence.lefaucheur at biblibre.com
Fri Jul 1 18:17:20 NZST 2016


Hi,

in 3.22 you can set the path to an xslt stylesheet in Z39.50 target 
configuration;

So if you can find an xslt UNIMARC to MARC21 you will be able to import 
unimarc into your koha. See 
https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=16488

Laurence


Le 30/06/2016 22:45, Andy Boze a écrit :
> Ah, OK, that makes sense. I was assuming that Koha could do some sort of
> magic to translate from one format to the other. I'm not a cataloger, so
> I don't deal with this sort of thing much. Thanks for replying!
>
> On 6/30/2016 4:32 PM, Chris Cormack wrote:
>> You can't mix UNIMARC and MARC21 in one Koha. It sounds like you are
>> trying to load a UNIMARC record into a MARC21 framework.
>>
>> Koha can't do that conversion for you (in fact nothing can in a
>> lossless way yet)
>>
>> Does this sound like what is happening?
>>
>> Chris
>>
>> On 1 July 2016 8:20:27 am NZST, Andy Boze <boze.1 at nd.edu> wrote:
>>> Hi, all. I'm wondering whether anyone else is using a UNIMARC Z39.50
>>> target and having a similar problem. We're running Koha 3.22.04.000.
>>>
>>> I've set up a target for Bibliothèque nationale de France using the
>>> following settings.
>>>
>>> Hostname: z3950.bnf.fr
>>> Port: 2211
>>> Database: TOUT-UTF8
>>> Userid: Z3950
>>> Password: Z3950_BNF
>>> Syntax: UNIMARC
>>> Encoding: utf8
>>> Record type: Bibliographic
>>>
>>> I got the configuration information from
>>> <http://www.bnf.fr/fr/professionnels/recuperation_donnees_bnf_boite_outils/a.profil_z3950_bnf.html>.
>>>
>>>
>>> In the Koha cataloging module, I can retrieve records from BnF via
>>> Z39.50, but Koha doesn't display the results correctly. Most of the
>>> columns are blank. The author column contains data from the 100 field.
>>> In UNIMARC the 100 field contains general processing data, not the
>>> author. It appears to me that even though the target is configured as
>>> UNIMARC, Koha is trying to display the results as MARC21.
>>>
>>> Is this a bug in Koha, or is there something else I need to do? I get
>>> the same results when I try the ByWater Solutions demo system. BTW,
>>> here's a copy of my YAZ session.
>>>
>>> Z> open tcp:z3950.bnf.fr:2211 /TOUT-UTF8
>>> Connecting...OK.
>>> Sent initrequest.
>>> Connection accepted by v3 target.
>>> ID     : DBV-OSI II UNIX API
>>> Name   : Frontal Z3950 BnF
>>> Version: Version 1.0
>>> Options: search present delSet scan namedResultSets
>>> Z> find @attr 1=4 history
>>> Sent searchRequest.
>>> Received SearchResponse.
>>> Search was a success.
>>> Number of hits: 15583, setno 1
>>> records returned: 0
>>> Z> format UNIMARC
>>> Z> show 3
>>> Sent presentRequest (3+1).
>>> Records: 1
>>> Record type: Unimarc
>>> 00493nam  22000733n 450
>>> 100    $a   s 1873u           y0fre 50
>>> 200 1  $a  The  History of Napoleon III, Emperor of the French,
>>> including a brie
>>> f narrative of all the most important events which have occurred in
>>> Europe since
>>>  the fall of Napoleon I until the overthrow of the Second Empire and
>>> the death o
>>> f Napoleon III, by John S. C. Abbott... with illustrations
>>> 700  | $a Abbott $b John Stevens Cabot $f 1805-1877 $4 070
>>> 801  0 $a FR $b FR-751131015 $c   s 1873 $g AFNOR
>>>
>>> nextResultSetPosition = 4
>>>
>>> --
>>> Andy Boze, Associate Librarian
>>> University of Notre Dame
>>> 208A Hesburgh Library
>>> (574) 631-8708
>>>
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>>
>


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