[Koha] Best practices for koha - journal migration using marcedit

[Karl Holten]

The MARC format has an individual record size limit of 99999 bytes, but big serials in Koha can eclipse that size. The result is that really big serials don't compile as valid MARC if you have a ton of items attached to them. 

You could try compiling to MARCXML, but I don't think the file importer for Koha can handle MARCXML.

The closest I got to creating a massive MRC serials record was to use YAZ-MARCDUMP (http://www.indexdata.com/yaz/doc/yaz-marcdump.html) to convert the big MARCXML record into MARC21. It seemed to compile but it was hard to tell. It wasn't valid MARC after all, and I couldn't exactly look at it in MARCEDIT.

Regards,
Karl Holten
Systems Integration Specialist
SWITCH Inc
414-382-6711

-----Original Message-----
From: Koha [mailto:koha-bounces at lists.katipo.co.nz] On Behalf Of Paul A
Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2016 2:39 PM
To: koha <koha at lists.katipo.co.nz>
Subject: Re: [Koha] Best practices for koha - journal migration using marcedit

At 08:24 PM 4/28/2016 +0530, Indranil Das Gupta wrote:
[snip
> > I would like to know how to covert excel data of journals especially 
> > with large number of issues(having more than 600 issues) for each 
> > journal. Tried using marcedit and it is giving error - 501 when 
> > trying to covert mrk to mrc format.
[snip]
> > Is there any other way how I can covert this data to mrc format.
>
>Yes, if you do programming or have access to a programmer adept at 
>handling MARC21 data, you can.

If you have details, please make them available. We looked into this (again after MarcEdit attempts), but ran into problems (from memory,
more_subfields_xml) ... and we've got about .25 million items to add ;=}

Thanks -- Paul 

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