[Koha] Testing Koha - How to migrate data from Voyager 9 to Koha for testing?

[Ere Maijala]

Hi,

I'm not sure how well the migration toolbox works out of the box, but 
there's one thing worth noting anyway: The vanilla Koha doesn't support 
MFHD's, which have a pretty important role in Voyager. While in many 
cases the relevant information can be stored in the bibliographic or 
item records, we found it necessary to implement support for holdings 
records in Koha. It, and the previous attempts, haven't really gained 
traction, but I'm still trying. :) In any case we're currently in the 
process of converting some Voyager databases to Koha with this custom 
holdings support.

There's a Holdings RFC at 
<https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/MARC_Holdings_Records_RFC> and 
patches at 
<http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=20447>. I'll 
try to see if there any chance at discussing this at the KohaCon 2018 
hackfest, but I'd also appreciate any input you as another Voyager 
library might have.

Regards,
Ere

Eliseo Gatchalian kirjoitti 27.8.2018 klo 4.29:
> Hi All,
> 
> Greetings! ☺  I’ve successfully installed Koha in a test virtual box and hoping to explore more of what it can do and check/match/improve our current workflows.
> 
> I’d like to test Koha with our actual data we have from Voyager 9.0, and wondering if anyone can point me on a direction of how to migrate our data?
> 
> I’ve done a search and found, https://github.com/jcamins/koha-migration-toolbox but I am not sure if this would work on the latest Koha version as it seems that last commits was at least 4 years ago.
> 
> Also, if we are to use the koha-migration-toolbox, from its scripts, it will extract CSV’s of all data, but I can’t seem to find in Koha on how to import those CSV’s? Any step-by-step guide for migrating data would be very helpful?
> 
> 
> Many thanks in advance guys… ☺
> 
> 
> Best regards,
> Ellis
> 
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Ere Maijala
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