[Koha] MICRO CDS/ISIS import into Koha?

[Baiju M]

I think CDS/ISIS version 1.3.x onwards has support for exporting data
as XML, but I failed to export data as XML from 1.3.x of CSS/ISIS.
If you cannot export data as XML from old CDS/ISIS versions, first import the data into
newer version of CDS/ISIS (1.4 or later). I think most the libraries will be using
some third party ISIS pascal based software for management of library activities (circulation, cataloging etc.),
All these data can be exported as ISO 2709 (CCF?), now you can import this into ISIS 1.4 or 1.5.x
and then export it as XML.

I think a large number of ISIS users will be migrating to Koha by next few years.
The document available in the wiki is not sufficiant for a quick migration, I will try to 
imrove it, I expect contribution from other users who migrated to Koha from ISIS.

Stephen, what about icluding the ISIS migration document in the standard Koha document as
an appendix?

Regards,
Baiju M


----- Original Message -----
From: "Stephen Hedges" <shedges at skemotah.com>
Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2004 19:00:58 -0400 (EDT)
To: koha at lists.katipo.co.nz
Subject: Re: [Koha] MICRO CDS/ISIS import into Koha?

> 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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