[Koha] Importing records

[Chris Cormack]

On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 10:17 AM, Joe Atzberger <ohiocore at gmail.com> wrote:
> John --
>
> Koha allows you to add an arbitrary number of z3950 sources and search them
> individually or in arbitrary groups.  But the type of "shotgun" approach you
> describe is not currently supported by Koha.
>
> I suspect it is not the kind of workflow a professional cataloger would
> undertake, mainly because there is no oversight of the quality or accuracy
> of data injected into the database.  Occasionally ISBN's do get reused, so
> without other criteria or human review, you could conceivably import bogus
> data.  That being said, I like the idea of a mass import by ISBN from text
> file, breaking it apart into two results:
>
> a group of staged records where ISBN is confidently matched, and
> a text file with the subset of unmatched or ambiguous ISBNs
>
Hi All

I seem to remember Mason has done something like this for a client in
the past,  he may have a script handy that will work as a base for
this

Chris