[Koha] proprietary integration

[Tonnesen Steve]

On Fri, 29 Nov 2002, Adam Thick wrote:

> Hi all.
> 
> I've recently been looking into sitting opac on top of a proprietary 
> system, DB text.  If anyone has any ideas or information I'd be happy to 
> hear about them. My intitial reaction to doing something like this was 
> to create something in perl that syncs up DB text and KOHA by dumping 
> the records into MARC and automatically uploading them to the KOHA db. 
>  But I'm happy to investigate other alternatives if others have had 
> success? I'm also happy to hear any horror stories.


I do exactly this in a couple of schools.  The librarians export their
data in MARC format and put it in their home directory on the school
server.  A script checks for new MARC records periodically and imports
them into Koha if it finds them.  The big thing that gets lost is
circulation information.

Steve.