[Koha-bugs] [Bug 25246] Add script to export bib data to EBSCO EDS

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https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=25246

--- Comment #11 from David Cook <dcook at prosentient.com.au> ---
(In reply to David Roberts from comment #10)
> We could have used OAI but there is at least one limitation, the main one
> being that EBSCO can't handle the deletions. Although we tag records as
> "deleted" in the OAI xml, EBSCO don't/can't use that. They asked us to set
> position 5 of the leader (000) to "d". However, Koha doesn't do this
> automatically so it would mean manually editing the record each time which
> is impractical. I guess the other option would be to write another patch to
> set position 5 on deletion. So, unless you know another way of handling the
> deletions, the export script is still our preferred method.

That's an interesting point! We've certainly encountered that obstacle with
EBSCO.

However, how are deletions handled with your export script? It looks to me like
you're just exporting the full set of bib records on each export, which would
be functionally equivalent to them re-harvesting the whole collection using
OAI-PMH. That said, it would be much less intensive to generate 1 export to FTP
than requiring EBSCO to do X number of HTTP requests to get the same result.

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