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<p style="margin: 0px;">Dear Chris,<span></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px;">Thanks for the information, Can you explain me in more detail, i am not very much clear, Looking forward for your kind reply</p>
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On July 13, 2010 at 8:30 AM Chris Cormack <chrisc@catalyst.net.nz> wrote:<br />
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> * Rick Welykochy (rick@praxis.com.au) wrote:<br />
> > rohitsingh wrote:<br />
> ><br />
> ><br />
> > > how we can create MARC records for books that do not have Library of<br />
> > > Congress Data?<br />
> ><br />
> > Programmatically, you can create MARC records from your own data<br />
> > using the MARC::Record module in Perl.<br />
> ><br />
> > perldoc MARC::Record<br />
> ><br />
> > will be of help.<br />
> ><br />
> ><br />
> > > How we should be able to enter the data in to a CSV file and then<br />
> > > programaticaly create MARC records for upload in Koha eventually?<br />
> ><br />
> > Yes, it should be no problem. Use the Text::CSV_XS module to read in<br />
> > the csv data and the MARC::Record module to write out marc records.<br />
> ><br />
> > You can then load the marc records that you have created into Koha<br />
> > using the bulkmarcimport.pl utility script (in bin/migration_tools/bulkmarcimport.pl)<br />
> ><br />
> Robin at catalyst has written a script that takes a CSV file and outputs<br />
> MARC.<br />
><br />
> Ive cc'd him so he can explain its usage, the branch is here<br />
> http://git.koha-community.org/gitweb/?p=wip/koha-catalyst.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/csvmigration<br />
><br />
> Chris<br />
> --<br />
> Chris Cormack<br />
> Catalyst IT Ltd.<br />
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