[Koha] Importing data into MARC

[Andres Tarallo]

You're right I'm using MARC::Record for doing my work, since I have a
databse in CEPAL i have also to map field from CEPAL to MARC21.

                                                                      Andres

Stephen Hedges wrote:

>Andres, use the regularly defined MARC tags (depending on your MARC
>flavor) to store the data from your "title" database.  Store the
>information from your "copy" database in holdings tags (in MARC21 either
>852 or a user-defined 9xx tag).  The holdings tag is repeatable, each
>repetition containing the information for one copy.  So if you have three
>copies of a title, your (very abbreviated) MARC21 record might look like:
>
>100  Author
>245  Title
>852  Copy 1 info
>852  Copy 2 info
>852  Copy 3 info
>
>Are you using MARC::Record to build the records for import?
>
>Stephen
>
>Andres Tarallo said:
>  
>
>>We're currently finishing our mapping to import our database (CEPAL
>>catalog in DOS/ISIS) to Koha. We have a question, and we want to know
>>the best solution to feed data for bulkmarcimport.pl.
>>
>>Our library has two databases. The first one has a detailed description
>>of  each title avaliable in the library; this database has one record
>>for each title we have, no matter how many copies of it we have.  The
>>second one has all the purchase information, in this database you have
>>one record for every copy of a book you have. Both databases are releted
>>via a pointer in the first one that references the records of the second
>>one.
>>
>>Now, we don't want to lose information and we're facing that many of our
>>books have many copies, so we want to know whats the best way to build
>>our MARC records, A record with full information from both databases for
>>each book we have?
>>
>>Thanks for your feedback
>>
>>         Andres
>>    
>>