[Koha] Migrate Alice for Windows

[Olugbenga Adara]

Hello,

One thing i've found useful when migrating data is to do a full manual cataloging of a sample biblio/item in the koha, then search for this record in OPAC and save as a marc record. I then use marcedit on this record to see koha marc tags and use that as a reference when mapping from other ILS or excel.

My 2 cents


Olugbenga Adara 
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--- On Wed, 6/17/09, Emrys Minnig <emrysminnig at varndean.co.uk> wrote:

> From: Emrys Minnig <emrysminnig at varndean.co.uk>
> Subject: Re: [Koha] Migrate Alice for Windows
> To: "Seth Mayo" <smayo at stpeters.nsw.edu.au>, koha at lists.katipo.co.nz
> Date: Wednesday, June 17, 2009, 5:15 AM
> I successfully migrated from Alice to
> Koha 3.  I used Alice's 'Export to USMARC' utility to
> dump all the records into a .dat file.  
>  
> Next, using MarcEdit (free from
> oregonstate.edu/~reeset/marcedit/html/), I moved item
> information from Alice's 999 subfields to Koha's 952
> subfields (if I remember right).
>  
> Then, I used Koha's 'Stage MARC records' utility to
> populate the catalogue.
>  
> If you have any other questions, feel free to email me.
>  
> Emrys Minnig
> Varndean School
>  
>  
> 
> ________________________________
> 
> From: koha-bounces at lists.katipo.co.nz
> on behalf of Seth Mayo
> Sent: Wed 17/06/2009 03:54
> To: koha at lists.katipo.co.nz
> Subject: [Koha] Migrate Alice for Windows
> 
> 
> 
> Has anyone migrated Alice for Windows to Koha?
> 
> Alice for Windows hasn't been working right in our school
> for while
> and I'm looking to change to Koha.  However I haven't
> been able to get
> the exported MARC file to import.  Unfortunately I
> don't know much
> about MARC but basically what I've done is the following.
> 
> 1.  Used the Alice for Windows 'Export to MARC'
> function to dump a
> MARC 21 .dat file
> 2.  Set up the environment variables for
> bulkmarcimport.pl
> 3.  Run bulkmarcimport.pl to import the data which
> returned that 21000
> odd items were imported
> 4.  Found there were no more items in the database
> than before.
> 5.  Tried uploading it to import through the
> 'reservior' method and it
> gave me a report that there were the same number of records
> but that
> there were MARC errors on each one.
> 
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Seth Mayo
> IT Technical Manager
> Email:  smayo at stpeters.nsw.edu.au
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