[Koha] MICRO CDS/ISIS import into Koha?

[Stephen Hedges]

Christopher, you might also want to go to the Koha wiki
(www.koha.org/wiki) and take a look at Baiju's "CDS/ISIS based system to
Koha" migration notes in the "Installation and migration" section.

Stephen

Andres Tarallo said:
> We're currently doing  this process (Universidad ORT, Montevideo,
> Uruguay). We've MicroISIS for DOS our cataloging system is CEPAL (very
> popular in Latin America), we run MicroISIS in Windows (9x). As far as I
> know microisis is still widely deployed in many libraries at least here
> in Uruguay (it was distributed for free), and I think similar situation
> is common to the rest of latin america.
>
> With the help of our Librarians and some documentation from the OpenISIS
> project we're decoding the exported files (that are similar to ISO2709,
> but not conforming). We're writing our own tools to do the translation
> between ISIS maping (CEPAL) to MARC21 and the merge of our databases.
>
> Right know we have a test instalation working, with about 1000 biblios
> retrieved from each of the two branches our university has.  We hope to
> start working in a few days in adding functionalities to Koha.
>
> WinISIS works with MARC (I think). Welcome aboard !!!!!!!!!
>
> Andres
>
> Christopher L Brown-Syed wrote:
>
>>Pardon me if this is a FAQ. Has anyone successfully exported a catalogue
>>from Micro CDS/ISIS (the Unesco software of the early 1990s), and
>> imported
>>it into Koha? ISIS exported records in ISO 2709 format, I believe. By
>> now,
>>most ISIS users would have migrated to WinISIS, which had a GUI, and
>> maybe
>>different file structures. But there are still some NGOs and not for
>>profits sticking to their old DOS based ISIS.
>>
>>

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