[Koha] KOHA Newbies/ Winnebago Spectrum conversion

[Kyle Hall]

If you have any question about the import scripts, let me know. They
should work for Koha 3.0 for the most part. They might require a bit
of tweaking here and there. I'll try to help if I can. Honestly, it's
been so long since I looked at the code that it might as well have
been written by someone else ; )

Kyle

http://www.kylehall.info
Information Technology
Crawford County Federated Library System ( http://www.ccfls.org )




On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 4:21 PM, Cindy Murdock <cmurdock at ccfls.org> wrote:
> Hi Barbara,
>
> Our library system of 9 libraries migrated to Koha from Winnebago
> Circ/Cat over the course of a year or two.  Depending on the size of
> your collection, you probably don't have to close during a conversion.
> When I migrated each of our libraries, I generally gave myself a week or
> two to tweak the MARC records, importing those ahead of time (in which I
> put a freeze on adding or deleting new items to the old circ system) and
> then after the library would close on a Saturday afternoon I would
> import the rest of their data over the course of the weekend.  Generally
> it would take a few hours.  Of course, before I did all this I did
> numerous practice runs to make sure all would go smoothly.  If you're
> doing the migration & support of Koha yourself, you should definitely
> set up one or more test systems to thoroughly familiarize yourselves
> with the migration process as well as Koha itself.
>
> Also, Kyle Hall, on our IT staff, wrote a collection of scripts for our
> conversion that you might find useful, although they were written for
> the dev_week version of Koha, not 3.0.  You can find them here:
> http://kylehall.info/index.php/projects/koha-tools/
>
> As for problems & MARC tweaking, you'll definitely want to make sure
> your records are properly encoded in UTF-8.  I've found yaz-marcdump
> useful for that.  You'll also need to set up your MARC frameworks in
> Koha to match your records, and/or tweak your records with MarcEdit
> before importing them.
>
> Cheers,
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Cindy Murdock
> IT Services Director
> Meadville Public Library    | CCFLS
> http://meadvillelibrary.org | http://ccfls.org
>
>
>
> Barbara Keef wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Our public library is in the early planning stages of migration to KOHA from
>> Winnebago/SPECTRUM.
>>
>> Can any of the public libraries on this list-serv offer "advice" as far as
>> preparation for this migration?
>>
>> Q: Do we need to close during a conversion?
>> Q: What is the average time for conversion as experienced by other
>> libraries?
>> Q: Are there any common problems we should look out for that other
>> libraries may have gone through during the conversion process?
>> Q. Is there any tweaking of our MARC records that would make the process
>> smoother?
>>
>> Thanks for any help.
>> Barbara Keef
>>
>>
>> Barbara L. Keef
>> Reference/Technology Librarian
>> Windham Public Library
>> 217 Windham Center Road
>> Windham, Maine 04062
>> 207-892-1908
>>
>>
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