[Koha-devel] Duplicate Biblios

[Cindy Murdock]

Yes, we created two for our libraries.  One is for use on a non-zebra 
Koha, and the other is for use with zebra.  They're a part of 
koha-tools, a collection of scripts we created for our migration. 

http://koha-tools.sourceforge.net/get.php

The non-zebra one is in winnebago-to-koha/trunk/removeDuplicates.  It 
looks for records with the same ISBN and merges them automatically.  The 
zebra version is in winnebago-to-koha/trunk/zebraCompress.  It has a web 
interface that searches for matching ISBNs and presents them so can use 
to choose which records to merge.  We found that just matching by ISBN 
was too broad, because some of our materials are the same but they have 
different item types.  The removeDuplicates script doesn't catch that.

If you use either of these scripts, be sure to back up your database 
beforehand.

Cheers,
Cindy

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Mohamed Amin wrote:
> Hi Folks,
> Does anyone have a script for combining duplicated biblios, based on 
> the ISBN or any other criteria?
> I have migrated from L4U to Koha and I ended up having 1 biblio for 
> every item, but a lot of these items are the same. They should belong 
> to only 1 biblio. Is there anyone who had a similar problem?
>
> Your help is much appreciated.
> Thanks,
>
> -- 
> Mohamed Amin
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IT Services Director
Meadville Public Library    | CCFLS
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