Fw: Conversion of old library program data
----- Original Message ----- From: Underwood Bill To: nsr_koha@hotmail.com Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2003 1:58 PM Subject: Conversion of old library program data Hello Koha, I'm a high school librarian in British Columbia, Canada... and have been checking out your website as we are looking for a libray program to replace our very old DOS program. A big questions Is there a way that patron and cirulation records could be converted from our old DOS program to Koha... or would we have to enter all from scratch... a monumental task! Thanks, Bill Underwood wildsterlingbill@hotmail.com
On Tue, May 06, 2003 at 08:22:34PM -0400, Nicholas Rosasco said:
----- Original Message ----- From: Underwood Bill To: nsr_koha@hotmail.com Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2003 1:58 PM Subject: Conversion of old library program data
Hello Koha,
I'm a high school librarian in British Columbia, Canada... and have been checking out your website as we are looking for a libray program to replace our very old DOS program. A big questions
Is there a way that patron and cirulation records could be converted from our old DOS program to Koha... or would we have to enter all from scratch... a monumental task!
Hi Bill The short answer is most likely :) If you can get the records out of your existing system as a text file. With some semblance of order/pattern. Then we will be able to write some perl to munge them into koha. We did this for the original koha install, and im sure its been done many times since. Getting the data out is the hard bit, if you can get it out, we can get it in. Chris
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