[Koha] FW: Re: convert ISO to marc file with MarcEdit

[Paul Hoffman]

Ana Bela,

On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 05:01:59PM +0000, anabela semedo wrote:
> thank you OWEN, yes I tried converting with MarcEdit, but it does not convert.
> reading many tutorials, I think my problem is even in the data.

Is there a mailing list for ABCD?  If so, I would ask them how to export 
records in MARC21 format.  Or perhaps in UNIMARC, since Koha seems to 
support that as well.

> I export and convert with marcedit, I open with the marc editor, I get 
> the message that my file is not a valid marc.

What this means is that the file is not valid MARC21 (or any other 
variety of ISO-2709 that MarcEdit is able to parse).

> this is an example of the exported record of ABCD base
> 
> 00789000000000409000450006000080000012000010000813000010000931000010001079000010
> 00118100001000128200001000138300001000149020005000159040003000209080003000239090
> 00200026950000400028010000500032002000300037004000200040006000200042009000600044
> 01600160005001801080006604300110017403800470018502000060023207600130023807600280
> 02510760031002790760018003100370013003280370010003419810018003519820005003690100
> 00500374#Doação.########1986#PT#en#m#MON#true#21#M#m#Livro#Schasse^bUlrich#"Male
> -female wage differences in west germany: empirical evidence, causes and implica
> tions"/ Ulrich Schasse#016 SCH ma#Lisboa: Centro de Estudos da Dependencia, 1986
> #44 p.#Bibliografia#Politica de desenvolvimento#Mulheres-Equidade de géneros#M
> ulheres-Alemanha#2 exemplares#Inv. 2016#20140601 08:49:45#abcd#true##

Hmm, that does look like ISO-2709 data, but not MARC21 or UNIMARC.  Do 
you know which variety of ISO-2709 it is?  Here are the various parts of 
the leader (a.k.a. record label) that convince me that it's not MARC21 
or UNIMARC:

Offset  Contents  Description
------  --------  ----------------------------------------------------------
00-04   00789     Record length = 789 bytes
05-09   00000     ???
10      0         Indicator count (MARC21 and UNIMARC have 2 here)
11      0         Subfield code count (MARC21 and UNIMARC have 2 here)
12-16   00409     Base address of data
17-19   000       ???
20      4         Length of the length-of-field
21      5         Length of the starting-character-position
22      0         Length of the implementation-defined
23      0         Undefined in MARC21

> I try with exported winisis data and I can edit with marcedit.
> but I have 30,000 ABCD registration to convert.
> thanks for listening.

You'll have to find a way to convert the exported records to MARC21 or 
UNIMARC, or to some other ISO-2709 format that Koha supports.  Either 
that, or convince ABCD to export in one of those formats.  Good luck!

Paul.

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