[Koha] importing authorities

Wed Dec 9 01:36:21 NZDT 2009

Anyone have any tips for finding a collection of authorities I can try
to import?  Can anyone else import records from LOC?

Thanks
Nicole

On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 8:52 PM, Nicole Engard <nengard at gmail.com> wrote:
> You all rock and helped me with the content to write an awesome
> tutorial for others!!
>
> Now - for some reason I keep getting that 0 records are importing.
> I'm going to the LOC site (authorities.loc.gov) and exporting a record
> from there - I tried in both MARC formats listed - so now I'm up for
> suggestions on how to get an authority record or two to import :)
>
> Nicole
>
> On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 8:43 PM, Jesse <pianohacker at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> 2009/12/4 Nicole Engard <nengard at gmail.com>
>>>
>>> Also - as someone who's new to this - where is my @INC file?
>>>
>>> 2009/12/4 Nicole Engard <nengard at gmail.com>:
>>> > You mean the C4 in Koha?
>>> >
>>> > home/nengard/kohaclone/C4 -- or is there another C4?
>>> >
>>> > On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 5:39 PM, Walls, Ian <Ian.Walls at med.nyu.edu>
>>> > wrote:
>>> >> Nicole,
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >> Hmmm... What directory is the parent to your installation's C4?  You
>>> >> need to get that in your @INC. Something like:
>>> >>
>>> >> export PERL5LIB=/path/to/C4's/parent
>>> >>
>>> >> before you run bulkauthimport.pl should do the trick (the -I does the
>>> >> same thing, but just for that perl call)
>>> >>
>>> >> Good luck!
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >> Ian
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >> On Dec 4, 2009, at 17:18, "Nicole Engard" <nengard at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >>> Bleh :(
>>> >>>
>>> >>> nengard at debian:~/kohaclone/misc/migration_tools$ perl -I
>>> >>> /Users/nengard/kohaclone bulkauthimport.pl -file
>>> >>> /Users/nengard/Desktop/authoritymarc.mrc
>>> >>> Can't locate C4/Context.pm in @INC (@INC contains:
>>> >>> /Users/nengard/kohaclone /etc/perl /usr/local/lib/perl/5.10.0
>>> >>> /usr/local/share/perl/5.10.0 /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/share/perl5
>>> >>> /usr/lib/perl/5.10 /usr/share/perl/5.10 /usr/local/lib/site_perl .) at
>>> >>> bulkauthimport.pl line 18.
>>> >>> BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at bulkauthimport.pl line 18.
>>> >>> You have new mail in /var/mail/nengard
>>> >>>
>>> >>> Nicole
>>> >>>
>>> >>> On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 4:50 PM, Walls, Ian <Ian.Walls at med.nyu.edu>
>>> >>> wrote:
>>> >>>> Nicole,
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>> Oh, that's the PERL5LIB thing.  Try this:
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>> perl -I /Users/nengard/kohaclone bulkauthimport.pl -file /Users/
>>> >>>> nengard/Desktop/authoritymarc.mrc
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>> Assuming that path after the -I is where your kohaclone is.
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>> -Ian
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> >>>> From: Nicole Engard [mailto:nengard at gmail.com]
>>> >>>> Sent: Friday, December 04, 2009 4:47 PM
>>> >>>> To: Walls, Ian
>>> >>>> Cc: Owen Leonard; Koha List
>>> >>>> Subject: Re: [Koha] importing authorities
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>> Oh poo -- looks like I'm missing something I need installed --
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>> nengard at debian:~/kohaclone/misc/migration_tools$ perl
>>> >>>> bulkauthimport.pl -file /Users/nengard/Desktop/authoritymarc.mrc
>>> >>>> Can't locate C4/Context.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /etc/perl
>>> >>>> /usr/local/lib/perl/5.10.0 /usr/local/share/perl/5.10.0 /usr/lib/
>>> >>>> perl5
>>> >>>> /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/perl/5.10 /usr/share/perl/5.10
>>> >>>> /usr/local/lib/site_perl .) at bulkauthimport.pl line 18.
>>> >>>> BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at bulkauthimport.pl line 18.
>>> >>>> nengard at debian:~/kohaclone/misc/migration_tools$
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>> Hmmm
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>> 2009/12/4 Nicole Engard <nengard at gmail.com>:
>>> >>>>> Thank you! I will add this to the manual and use it right now :)
>>> >>>>>
>>> >>>>> On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 4:40 PM, Walls, Ian <Ian.Walls at med.nyu.edu>
>>> >>>>> wrote:
>>> >>>>>> Nicole,
>>> >>>>>>
>>> >>>>>>
>>> >>>>>> You'd need a MARC file (either ISO2709 or MARCXML) with the
>>> >>>>>> authority data in it, and to navigate to the misc/migration_tools
>>> >>>>>> directory for your install.  Then type:
>>> >>>>>>
>>> >>>>>> perl bulkauthimport.pl -file /path/to/file
>>> >>>>>>
>>> >>>>>> You can also use the -h flag to investigate other options.  One
>>> >>>>>> really useful one is -m, which sets the incoming file format
>>> >>>>>> (ISO2709 or MARCXML).
>>> >>>>>>
>>> >>>>>> Oh, right, and be sure you've exported your PERL5LIB, so the
>>> >>>>>> script knows where to find the Koha Perl modules.
>>> >>>>>>
>>> >>>>>> Hope that's helpful!  And yes, we should absolutely package up
>>> >>>>>> some example authorities to go with the sample catalog data and
>>> >>>>>> patrons.
>>> >>>>>>
>>> >>>>>>
>>> >>>>>> -Ian
>>> >>>>>>
>>> >>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> >>>>>> From: Nicole Engard [mailto:nengard at gmail.com]
>>> >>>>>> Sent: Friday, December 04, 2009 4:32 PM
>>> >>>>>> To: Walls, Ian
>>> >>>>>> Cc: Owen Leonard; Koha List
>>> >>>>>> Subject: Re: [Koha] importing authorities
>>> >>>>>>
>>> >>>>>> Ian do you know what command I need to type and what file I need to
>>> >>>>>> create to use bulkauthimport.pl?
>>> >>>>>>
>>> >>>>>> And Owen - yeah I think we should have some default Auth records we
>>> >>>>>> can fill the system with like we do with catalog data and patrons.
>>> >>>>>>
>>> >>>>>> Nicole
>>> >>>>>>
>>> >>>>>> On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 4:10 PM, Walls, Ian
>>> >>>>>> <Ian.Walls at med.nyu.edu> wrote:
>>> >>>>>>> As far as I know, the only way currently is to use
>>> >>>>>>> bulkauthimport.pl
>>> >>>>>>> .  I would think it wouldn't be that difficult to modify the
>>> >>>>>>> Stage MARC Records for Import tool to do authorities as well as
>>> >>>>>>> biblios.  My cataloger tells me that authorities are going to be
>>> >>>>>>> particularly important in RDA, so we may want to consider
>>> >>>>>>> beefing up that end of the codebase.  I will happily look into
>>> >>>>>>> it as I get the time.
>>> >>>>>>>
>>> >>>>>>> Cheers,
>>> >>>>>>>
>>> >>>>>>>
>>> >>>>>>> Ian Walls
>>> >>>>>>> Systems Integration Librarian
>>> >>>>>>> NYU Health Sciences Libraries
>>> >>>>>>> 550 First Ave., New York, NY 10016
>>> >>>>>>> (212) 263-8687
>>> >>>>>>>
>>> >>>>>>>
>>> >>>>>>>
>>> >>>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> >>>>>>> From: koha-bounces at lists.katipo.co.nz [mailto:koha-
>>> >>>>>>> bounces at lists.katipo.co.nz] On Behalf Of Owen Leonard
>>> >>>>>>> Sent: Friday, December 04, 2009 4:04 PM
>>> >>>>>>> To: Koha List
>>> >>>>>>> Subject: Re: [Koha] importing authorities
>>> >>>>>>>
>>> >>>>>>>> Is there a way to import authority records?
>>> >>>>>>>
>>> >>>>>>> If so, I'd love to get my hands on some MARC21 authority
>>> >>>>>>> records. I
>>> >>>>>>> always end up creating a couple of dummy records, and having
>>> >>>>>>> some to
>>> >>>>>>> import would be so much better for testing.
>>> >>>>>>>
>>> >>>>>>>  -- Owen
>>> >>>>>>>
>>> >>>>>>> --
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>> @INC is simply Perl's list of directories that it is looking for Perl
>> modules in.
>>
>> You need to run the following, or put in your ~/.bashrc:
>>
>> export PERL5LIB=/home/nengard/kohaclone/
>>
>> Basically, Koha imports modules from the C4 module. It needs to be told what
>> directory to look for the C4 directory in, however. In a dev install, this
>> is your Git clone; on a standard install, it would be something like
>> /usr/share/koha/lib/.
>>
>> On my machine, for instance, since my Koha git clone is at
>> /home/jesse/projects/koha, and the C4 directory with Koha's Perl modules is
>> thus at /home/jesse/projects/koha/C4, I do this:
>>
>> export PERL5LIB=/home/jesse/projects/koha
>>
>> Opted to explain too much rather than too little, hope this helps,
>> --
>> Jesse Weaver
>>
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