[Koha] Bulk loads of MARC records

[Erik Peterson]

Thanks Steven.

John:
Can I get a copy of your program to analyze?
How did you end up uploading the records into the DB.

thanks,
Erik
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steven F. Baljkas" <baljkas at mb.sympatico.ca>
Date: Sun, 5 Oct 2003 22:51:23 -0500
To: "Stephen Hedges" <shedges at skemotah.com>,"Erik Peterson" <reefdude at email.com>,<jferraro at alma.athenscounty.lib.oh.us>
Subject: Re: [Koha] Bulk loads of MARC records

> Sunday, October 6, 2003    22:44 CDT
> 
> Hi, Erik,
> 
> I know Stephen H and Joshua F have responded -- so they may know that what
> I'm about to suggest checking out doesn't work (I haven't been able to try
> it out) -- but back on August 12, 2003, John Voth wrote the Koha listserv
> with what would seem to be a solution to your problem (all except the caveat
> that you would still need to find some way to input all catalogue specific
> info like the holdings data, acq date, etc.; you might be able to map these
> into rarely-used MARC fields and then try a global import of those fields -- 
> if Koha would support that kind of global change).
> 
> Anyway, John Voth's original message read as follows:
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "John Voth" <jvoth at shaw.ca>
> To: <koha at lists.katipo.co.nz>
> Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2003 2:06 PM
> Subject: [Koha] MARC importing tool?
> 
> > Howdy!
> >
> > I've developed a couple of programs that I have used to aid
> > me in populating the library database.
> >
> > The first program takes a raw scan of a book's EAN
> > (ie:9781575212784) and converts it into the ISBN
> > (ie:1575212781).
> >
> > The second program takes a list of ISBN's and attempts to
> > retrieve the ARC record for each title from the LoC.
> >
> > I have successfully used these two programs to obtain
> > MARC records on approximately 4000 titles so far. I think
> > it took about 40 minutes to poll the LoC and save all the
> > responses to a file. [snip]
> >
> > Regards,
> > John
> ===========================
> 
> Hope this helps,
> 
> Cheers,
> Steven F. Baljkas
> library tech at large
> Koha neophyte
> Winnipeg, MB, CANADA
> 
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