[Koha] Importing records

[John Wesley Simpson Hibbs]

Joe,

Please forgive my persistence ... 

My library is rather small, only about 1500 books.  I am still hoping
not to have to enter them all in one at a time...

I decided to try Google's MyLibrary, and after deciding it had too few
features, am still kicking myself...
Deleting the books one by one, I'm about half way through removing them
from there.

Assuming that the ISBN's are correct in the first place, can I create
the staged records with "only" the isbn, and then have the rest of the
data filled in automatically from the z39.50 sources?

john


On Mon, 2008-12-29 at 16:17 -0500, Joe Atzberger 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 
> For now though, it'll have to be something for developers to mull
> over.  You may want to check if there is any similar functionality in
> ‡biblios (or plans for it).  
> -- Joe
> 
> On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 2:46 PM, John Wesley Simpson
> <john at swajime.com> wrote:
> 
>         Howdy,
>         
>         I've been using Readerware from http://www.readerware.com/ to
>         maintain my library.  I have just installed Koha, and am
>         having difficulty understanding how to get my library loaded
>         into it.
>         
>         With Readerware, I can load a list of ISBN's from a text file
>         and have Readerware automatically fill in the rest of the data
>         for the books.
>         
>         How do I do this in Koha?
>         
>         So far, it appears that I can do this, but only one ISBN at a
>         time?
>         -- 
>         John Wesley Simpson Hibbs <john at swajime.com>
>         SwaJime's Cove


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