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

[Michael Hafen]

That's great for new records.  Not so good if one is trying to migrate
records.

On Thu, 2009-03-12 at 20:54 -0700, David Schuster wrote:
> 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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> > 
> > 
> 
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Michael Hafen
Systems Analyst and Programmer
Washington County School District
Utah, USA

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