[Koha-devel] Who all are purposing Koha as an Union Catalog?

[Indranil Das Gupta]

Hi David,

On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 10:05 AM, David Cook <dcook at prosentient.com.au> wrote:
> We put together a proof of concept using my original OAI-PMH harvester, but
> I wasn't a huge fan of it, as it was very simple. It didn't deduplicate
> biblios, and it didn't include items (although we had the OAI-PMH server
> inject a URL pointing back to the original Koha instance with the number of
> items attached to the biblio).

Thanks for the reply. You have touched upon several of the concerns I
had. My biggest concern is de-duplication and how to go about - how to
match, but even before that how to curate the data that one is
receiving from participating libraries as MARC exports, so that we can
maximize the maximum number of matches. Is there any set standards,
rules (even rule of thumb) in these? I mean beyond matching (a) ISBN
or (b) Title + Author + edition?

This is what i want to hear about and learn from people like you and
others who have already ventured into these areas. Brooke have replied
earlier and pointed me to masscat done by Bywater.

thanks in advance.



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