[Koha] New Koha install - legacy import question

[Jon Witts]

Hi Katrin,

Thanks for the reply... After a bit of a baptism of fire learning about
MARC records and how to use MARCEdit I think we are there...

I have imported all the records that we could from our legacy system and we
have a working Koha system now :-)

Now we just need someone to take on the huge task of auditing all of the
books and checking they are where the system thinks they are!

Jon
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Jon Witts
Director of Digital Strategy
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On Sat, 24 Jul 2021 at 16:31, Katrin Fischer <katrin.fischer.83 at web.de>
wrote:

> Hi Jon,
>
> just confirming you are on the right path there. While changing the item
> mappings in Koha is possible, I'd always recommend against it. For
> example you'd also have to change the indexing for Zebra/Elasticsearch
> to match your new fields. Converting your data to 952 is the better option.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Katrin
>
> On 16.07.21 15:57, Jon Witts wrote:
> > OK, so answering myself...
> >
> > I think I have got it to work now as best as I can... I imported the MARC
> > export from our legacy system into MARCEdit, had to then verify it and
> > remove invalid records. I could then use MARCEdit's switch fields tool
> and
> > replace subfields tools to create the required 952 items in the MARC file
> > ready for import into Koha...
> >
> > Looking pretty good at the minute; need to do some further checks on the
> > data, but it is certainly getting closer!
> >
> > Jon
> > -----------------------------------------------------
> >
> > Jon Witts
> > Director of Digital Strategy
> > -----------------------------------------------------
> >
> >
> >
> > On Fri, 16 Jul 2021 at 09:06, Jon Witts <jwitts at queenmargarets.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi there,
> >>
> >> I am a new Koha user and have just set up and installed a new Koha
> >> instance for our school library. We are running on a single Ubuntu
> server
> >> and I followed the Ubuntu/ Debian install documentation and installed
> from
> >> the packages.
> >>
> >> I am now trying to import our catalogue from our legacy system (Softlink
> >> Alice) and have run into some issues...
> >>
> >> In the MARC export from our legacy system the details for each item are
> >> stored in the 852 fields, specifically:
> >> * 852,k = Item Library name / location
> >> * 852,h = Item classification i.e. F for fiction or 242 for non-fiction
> >> Dewey code
> >> * 852,i = Item suffix i.e. CAR for author Frank Carr
> >> * 852,p = item barcode
> >> * 852,t = item copy number
> >>
> >> I thought that I could use the "Koha to MARC Mapping" to edit this, but
> >> after adding the new mappings in I get an error in the "MARC
> >> bibliographic framework test", specifically:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> *ALL items fields MUST :be mapped to the same tag,and they must all be
> in
> >> the 10 (items) tab*
> >>
> >> On the "Koha to MARC Mapping" page it states "If you make any change to
> >> the mappings, you must ask your administrator to run
> >> misc/batchRebuildBiblioTables.pl.", however when I run
> >> the /usr/share/koha/bin/batchRebuildBiblioTables.pl script I get the
> >> following errors:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> *unable to locate Koha configuration file koha-conf.xml at
> >> /usr/share/koha/lib/C4/Context.pm line 188.Use of uninitialized value in
> >> concatenation (.) or string at /usr/share/koha/lib/C4/Templates.pm line
> >> 154.Use of uninitialized value $db_name in concatenation (.) or string
> at
> >> /usr/share/koha/lib/Koha/Database.pm line 91.Use of uninitialized value
> >> $db_host in concatenation (.) or string at
> >> /usr/share/koha/lib/Koha/Database.pm line 91.Use of uninitialized value
> >> $db_name in concatenation (.) or string at
> >> /usr/share/koha/lib/Koha/Database.pm line 91.Use of uninitialized value
> >> $db_host in concatenation (.) or string at
> >> /usr/share/koha/lib/Koha/Database.pm line 91.Use of uninitialized value
> in
> >> concatenation (.) or string at /usr/share/koha/lib/C4/Auth_with_cas.pm
> line
> >> 42.Use of uninitialized value $db_name in concatenation (.) or string at
> >> /usr/share/koha/lib/Koha/Database.pm line 91.Use of uninitialized value
> >> $db_host in concatenation (.) or string at
> >> /usr/share/koha/lib/Koha/Database.pm line 91.Use of uninitialized value
> >> $INC[-1] in string eq at /usr/share/koha/lib/Koha/Plugins.pm line 37.*
> >>
> >> Am I going about this the wrong way? How should I be mapping these 852
> >> fields into the 952 / items fields in Koha?
> >>
> >> Many thanks,
> >> Jon
> >>
> >> -----------------------------------------------------
> >>
> >> Jon Witts
> >> Director of Digital Strategy
> >> -----------------------------------------------------
> >>
> >>
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