[Koha] Import items (holdings)

[Marijana Glavica]

On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 03:57:29PM -0500, Library Guy wrote:
> Although the holdings data is all present in 952, some important data is not
> dedicated to a single subfield.  For example, rather than Koha's $v for the
> price, the cost is instead held in a subfield and delimited within that
> subfield along with a lot of other important data.  Even MarcEdit is not
> sophisticated enough to parse this and copy the data to alternate
> subfields.  Does anyone know of a utility that can?
> 
> I've been rethinking Jesse's idea of importing the MARC BIBs (without
> holdings) in Koha, then importing the holdings directly into the sql items
> table and running the sync script (after first exporting the biblionumbers
> and matching them into my exported holdings CSV, assuming that the
> biblionumber or the biblioitemnumber are the key field for syncing).
> 
> Does anyone have any better ideas?

We developed very powerfull tool for data mungling. Unfortunately there is 
stil no user documentation for this, but techical documentation do exist.
You can obtain it at http://svn.rot13.org/index.cgi/webpac2/browse/trunk
(you will se some references about search engine and web front and, but
for now just ignore this, because this part is not finished)

If you manage to install this software I will be glad to help on how to
use it. Of course you can also ask for help on installation issues, I
will forward it to the author.

Also, please send me a sample of your data and exact specification of 
the needed transformations, so I can see how complicated it could be (it
seems to me that it could be very easy).

Kind regards, 
Marijana


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Marijana Glavica
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Libraries
I. Lucica 3, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
http://www.knjiznice.ffzg.hr