[Koha] Hello from Vermont

[Joy Nelson]

Hi Mark,
If you don't have MarcEdit, I would suggest getting a copy.  It is a free
download.  It has a built in marc-8 to utf-8 converter.  It also has a lot
of other tools for manipulating your records.  I would suggest creating the
item tags (and moving data around) prior to importing the marc into Koha.
You'll be able to view your data and the item information prior to
importing. That is how I prefer to work with the data.

Thanks,
Joy

On Sun, Aug 28, 2016 at 7:54 PM, Mark Alexander <marka at pobox.com> wrote:

> Excerpts from Joy Nelson's message of 2016-08-28 18:23:32 -0500:
> > I worked on some mandarin data in the past. Let me know if you have any
> questions
>
> Thanks, all, for the kind welcome and advice!
>
> Right now I'm working on a couple of things:
>
> 1. To set the item call number on import, I think I can use the Koha
> cataloging preference "itemcallnumber".  It looks like setting
> it to "852khi" would work for our Mandarin records.
>
> 2. To set the item type, I think I can use the MARC field 245$h, which
> in our Mandarin installation contains things like "[sound recording]",
> "[videorecording]", etc.  It looks like the MARC Modification
> Templates, with their regular expressions, have enough power this
> without my having to write a converter.  (I've already written a
> MARC-8 to UTF-8 converter in Ruby, so writing another converter
> wouldn't be too hard, but it'd be nice for our librarian to be able to
> do imports on her Windows box.)
>
> I should stop fretting and just go ahead and try this out :-) .
>



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