[Koha-devel] Fwd: Need to Modify Marc Import Tool

[David Schuster]

Might be radical, but I told my vendors how I wanted my MARC 952 to look and
they are complying no cost to me since I'm paying for the records...
;)

Follett is in compliance

David


savitra wrote:
> 
> for some reason people did not receive this.
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: savitra sirohi <savitra.sirohi at osslabs.biz>
> Date: Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 9:36 AM
> Subject: Need to Modify Marc Import Tool
> To: koha-devel <koha-devel at lists.koha.org>
> 
> 
> Folks,
> 
> One of our customers wants the ability to import Follett marc records
> without having to use Marc Edit (to change fields 852 to 952).
> 
> We want to make this change generic such that it will work for any
> import file that has holdings in fields other than 952.
> 
> This is what we were thinking, will appreciate feedback on this design:
> 
> 1. Use marc_subfield_structure table to store field structure of the
> import file. So Follett would have records under its framework code.
> We could create frameworks for other vendors too.
> 2. Accept framework code as user input from stage-marc-import.pl. User
> could choose nothing which means input file already has holdings in
> 952. Or could choose Follett or some other vendor.
> 3. Pass framework code as parameter to BatchStageMarcRecords
> (C4/ImportBatch.pm) and from there to AddItemsToImportBiblio
> (C4/ImportBatch.pm).
> 4. In AddItemsToImportBiblio
> - Use the input framework code in GetMarcFromKohaField (C4/Biblio.pm)
> to fetch Follett holdings fields and subfields
> - Fetch default fields and subfields (952) using null framework code, as
> is currently done.
> - For each subfield set values appropriately (in the case of Follett
> 952s = 852s) before saving item record.
> 5. Initially the code will help with holdings tags, and later we could
> extend this to biblio tags as well.
> 
> Thanks,
> Savitra Sirohi
> Nucsoft OSS Labs
> http://www.osslabs.biz
> 
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