What holdings data does NPL map to the biblioitems table? Thomas D Quoting Stephen Hedges <shedges@skemotah.com> :
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Thomas D said:
What alterations were done for the customised version of bulkmarcimport.pl at NPL?
Some code was added to the beginning to re-write the MARC records (using MARC::Record) to split holdings information into two MARC tags instead of the normal single tag, so that some of the holdings data could be mapped to biblioitems and the rest to items.
Stephen
Thomas D
Quoting Stephen Hedges <shedges@skemotah.com> :
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I'd like to reinforce Thomas' point about "disintegrating integrated library systems" (and also correct a small error).
NPL now uses BookWhere instead of ITS MARC for cataloging materials -- which actually reinforces Thomas' point, because NPL was
able
to switch from one cataloging application to another without making changes to Koha. This was possible because both cataloging applications generate MARC records in a standard format (iso2709), and Koha can import those standardized records. However, Koha is only able to do the import after the records have been altered by a customized version of bulkmarcimport.pl.
I believe I remember that Paul has already discussed the notion of rewriting the Koha cataloging code so that it generates files of records for import in batches, instead of adding each record as it is created (which is very slow). I think it would be wise to aim for doing this rewrite in such a way that it also makes it easy for a
to use their own cataloging utility. In other words, I suggest
we start the disintegration process with the cataloging module, making it a "stand-alone" application that _can_ be used with Koha, but may also be replaced with another cataloging application of the
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choosing.
Stephen
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-- Stephen Hedges Skemotah Solutions, USA www.skemotah.com -- shedges@skemotah.com
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