[Koha-devel] Koha 3.2 : bulkmarcimport.pl/bulkauthimport.pl

[Linda Culberson]

  Everyone,
I apologize if this is the wrong list for this question.  There is 
considerable change in the bulkmarcimport.pl script and it seems to be 
written to handle authorities as well as bibliographic records.  I 
loaded my authority records using bulkauthimport.pl as I did in 3.1, and 
it worked fine, but I was wondering if I should be using 
bulkmarcimport.pl for both authorities and biblios (in other words, is  
bulkauthimport.pl being deprecated?)

I also still have the need to be able to retain our system 
identification numbers from the 001 as the biblio.biblionumber because 
it is used to tie our analytics to the host record  and it is used in 
links to non-MARC databases. I see that  there is still 
/usr/share/koha/bin/batchImportMARCWithBiblionumbers.pl   and 3.2's  
bulkmarcimport.pl does seem to allow for a "-k" "keepids" option 
(although the script does state that is is .."for authorities, where 001 
contains the authid for Koha, that can contain a very valuable info for 
authorities coming from LOC or
BNF. useless for biblios probably")   I tried unsuccessfully to use that 
option for biblios, and wondered if anyone else was working on a similar 
problem.

Thanks in advance.

-- 
Linda Culberson			lculber at mdah.state.ms.us
Archives and Records Services Division
Ms. Dept. of Archives&  History
P. O. Box 571
Jackson, MS 39205-0571
Telephone:  601/576-6873
Facsimile:  601/576-6824