[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 #13 from David Roberts <david.roberts at ptfs-europe.com> ---
(In reply to David Cook from comment #11)
> (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.

We send the full export each month, and EBSCO are happy to delete the current
data that they have and replace it with the new export.

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