[Koha] MARC importing tool?

John Voth jvoth at shaw.ca
Wed Aug 13 07:06:48 NZST 2003


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 
MARC 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.

The only program I need to find/write/beg/borrow/steal is one that will 
take all these MARC records and import them into KOHA. Is there anything 
out there that does this already?

Regards,
John

PS: I can make the above mentioned two programs available if there's 
enough interest.




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