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

[Joy Nelson]

Ere is correct.  In Voyager migrations you need to think about the holding
records and how to handle them.  We typically convert the holdings into
item tags on the associated bib record or load the information into a
textual holding statement(s) if possible.

-Joy

On Mon, Aug 27, 2018 at 2:29 AM, Ere Maijala <ere.maijala at helsinki.fi>
wrote:

> 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.o
> rg/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/koh
>> a-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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