[Koha] import question

[Stephen Hedges]

Derek, 

You might also want to take a peek at the wiki we've been using as we import 
our data into Koha, at 
http://www.seedwiki.com/page.cfm?doc=SpydusKoha&wikiid=2122
You might find some good examples for your session.

Stephen Hedges

> On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 11:40:14PM -0400, Derek 
> Dresser said:
> > 
> > Chris,
> > 
> > This helps a lot.  Let me just make sure I have 
> it.  A biblio is the general
> > information about a publication, a biblioitem 
> is a type of incarnation of a
> > publication (book on tape, paperback, 
> hardcover, first edition, etc.) and an
> > item is an actual thing that can be checked out 
> that fits one of those types. 
> > So you can obviously have multiple types, and 
> then one or more instances of each
> > type.  That makes sense.  Thanks.
> 
> Yep thats it :)
> 
> > 
> > Now, during the import process of a bunch of 
> USMARC records using
> > bulkmarcimport.pl, should I expect my database 
> to be populated with any items? 
> > After doing it, it seems that I get biblios and 
> biblioitems, but no actual
> > items.  Just for fun I created a test "item" 
> that matched one of my biblios and
> > biblioitems, and then searched for it.  It 
> worked great an I got all the
> > relevant info (bar code, etc).  However, it is 
> the only item in my whole
> > database.  ;-(
> > 
> Hmm, ill have to defer to the more MARC savvy 
> people on the list. But yes id
> expect you to get at least as many items as you 
> got biblioitems on the import.
> 
> Paul ... any ideas?
> 
> [snip]
> > 
> > FYI, We are hosting a 3 day Linux/Open Source 
> seminar here at the school at the
> > end of July and I'm giving one session on 
> installing and configuring Koha.  It
> > is aimed at schools and libraries here in 
> Maine.  Should be fun.  There's a
> > little more info here if you're interested 
> http://network.gouldacademy.org/ 
> 
> Excellent that sounds great. Im sure we can 
> figure out whats up with the
> import script before then. So you can do a 
> succesful import.
> 
> Chris
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