[Koha] Export MARC from Koha

[Philippe Revault]

Hi Steven,

 Thank you for your complete and specific answer. Finally i realize that 
i have lost some datas (at least subject) somewhere in the process  of 
updating  or configuring from 1.2.3 to 2.0.0

I will check this by reinstaling the all thing and report.

Thank you and other people again and do not worry.  Je suis patient  
:-). I am using Koha  just in order to test it in a private  environment.

Cordialement,

Philippe

> Steven F. Baljkas a écrit :
>
>> Thursday, April 22, 2004    15:25 CDT
>>
>>  
>>
>> Actually, the *original* MARC format was USMARC. Without everyone going
>> jingoistic, that's just a fact. By the 1990s, there were a variety of
>> nationalised-MARC systems in the world (USMARC, CANMARC, Australian 
>> MARC,
>> UKMARC, etc., etc., as we have had proof of even on this listserv 
>> when at
>> various times people have written in asking if Danish MARC or Chinese 
>> MARC,
>> etc. would be compatible with/represented in Koha).
>>
>> UNIMARC made great claims to being an international standard but was 
>> and is
>> essentially Eurocentric, all apologies to IFLA. When you look at the 
>> MASSIVE
>> amount of support documentation generated by the Library of Congress 
>> and the
>> mind-boggling amount of work done by various governmental and private
>> companies around MARC21 standards, you come to realise pretty quickly 
>> that
>> there is a reason it is becoming the de facto global standard.
>>
>> All that aside, yes, UNIMARC was and is intended as an information 
>> exchange
>> format (as is MARC21), and it is comprehended by Koha. From what Paul 
>> has
>> written before, you need to *decide the MARC variety you are going to 
>> use.*
>>  
>>
> Could you tell us which version of Koha you are using? That usually helps
>
>> the developpers identify where glitches are coming from and how they 
>> can be
>> fixed. And MJR has asked for a list of what is not being exported.
>>
>> In terms of the MARC coding, I may be able to help. Could you send me 
>> a test
>> sample of the MARC records you are able to export off the listserv? I 
>> can
>> examine them and see if something is happening to the MARC record's
>> registry, inadvertent damage to which can cause lost data.
>>
>>  
>>
>>> 3- Answer to Rachel (see below) : First thing should be to export the
>>> entire catalogue but additional datas from the borowers would certainly
>>> be nice.
>>>   
>>
>>
>> While there have been problems for others in exporting data from Koha 
>> and
>> importing data into Koha, overall Koha seems to work for most people.
>> Someone will be able to figure out what is glitching. Soyez patient. 
>> MJR has
>> already asked that you send a list of what is missing so they can 
>> test and
>> report it properly as a glitch. And Rachel is one of the big-picture 
>> people
>> involved with Koha, so it is understandable that she took your 
>> question on
>> exporting patron data to that level. Take that as a compliment.
>>
>> Amitiés,
>> Steven F. Baljkas
>> library tech at large -- bibliotechnicien
>> Koha neophyte
>> Winnipeg (Manitoba) Canada
>>
>>  
>>
>>>> On 2004-04-21 12:37:09 +0100 Philippe Revault <ph.revault at free.fr>
>>>>     
>>>
>> wrote:
>>  
>>
>>>>> 1- Is the export format in MARC or in UNIMARC ?
>>>>>       
>>>>
>>>> More likely to be MARC21, as far as I understand the code, but I could
>>>> be wrong.
>>>>
>>>>     
>>>>
>>>>> 2 - Which datas are exported ?
>>>>>       
>>>>
>>>> It should be possible to export all. If you are sure things are
>>>> missing, let us know, I'll test and make sure it gets recorded.
>>>>
>>>>     
>>>
>>> Rachel Hamilton-Williams a e'crit :
>>>
>>> If you're exporting data I assume that the MARC export only does the
>>>   
>>
>> catalogue
>>  
>>
>>> records - so it doesn't do
>>> - Borrowers/patron records
>>> - Finacial records?
>>> - Reserves
>>>
>>> Do you think it would be a good idea to have a method for exporting 
>>> this
>>>   
>>
>> data
>>  
>>
>>> as well?
>>>   
>>
>>
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