[Koha] Koha 3 indexing problem

[Jason Macki]

Hi Joe,

Thanks for your response.

>> Did you populate the "marc" and "marcxml" fields of the biblioitems table?

I did populate those fields. However, since MINISIS (our old library system) doesn't export marc records, I had to write a program to create the marc data in xml and ISO format, so they may contain errors.

>> I'm guessing not, since if you had the MARC available, you could have just imported the data from that format directly.

I've been trying to import the data directly to the data tables since it's my understanding that the bulk import script won't import holding information. However, if I can't get this approach to work, I will attempt to use the bulk import feature to import the biblioitem information, then update the data tables with the item information.

I'm finding it tricky to verify that the ISO marc content is valid. Can anyone recommend an application or script that can validate ISO marc records?

One of the details that I wasn't 100% sure on was which characters to use for field and record separators. I've been using ascii character 30 as a field separator and ascii character 29 as a record separator, following advice I read on a bulletin board somewhere. Is that correct?

The best documentation I could find for marc files is here, but it isn't specific about what the separator characters should be:
http://www.loc.gov/marc/umb/um11to12.html

Thanks,
Jason

From: Joe Atzberger [mailto:ohiocore at gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2008 1:29 PM
To: Jason Macki
Cc: koha at lists.katipo.co.nz
Subject: Re: [Koha] Koha 3 indexing problem

Jason --

Did you populate the "marc" and "marcxml" fields of the biblioitems table?  I'm guessing not, since if you had the MARC available, you could have just imported the data from that format directly.  If you can export MARC from your old system, this would be the preferred approach.

--Joe Atzberger

On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 12:12 PM, Jason Macki <jmacki at iisd.ca<mailto:jmacki at iisd.ca>> wrote:
Hello everyone,

I'm converting my organization's library data to Koha version 3, and am having a problem with indexing the data so that it's searchable.

I've uploaded publication data into the "biblio", "biblioitems", and "items" tables, and ran the rebuild_nozebra.pl script.

When I then do a search, I get results, but the results have no titles, and no links to the publication.

But if I open a record and save it on the "addbiblio" page, that record will show up properly in the search results with the title and link.

Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong?

Thanks for your help,
Jason

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