Hi Lauren,
Depending on the number and complexity of your data sources, I
recommend that you consider deploying an ETL system (ETL stands for
Extract, Transform, Load). There are a few open source and free of
cost frameworks on market, notably Pentaho's Kettle (see
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Patron Loads from Banner (XML/Tab-Delimited)
Hi Lauren,
Depending on the number and complexity of your data sources, I recommend that
you consider deploying an ETL system (ETL stands for Extract, Transform,
Load). There are a few open source and free of cost frameworks
Hello,
If anyone is willing to share an example of a script/process you are using
to extract patron data from Banner (can be for any ILS, but I'm
specifically interested in a script that's being used to generate either
XML or tab-delimited data) I would appreciate it!
If you happen to be
Hi Lauren,
We do exactly what you describe. Our IT department wrote an XML script that
pulls from Banner and sends the file to the WMS server M-F. I do not know
some of the nitty gritty, but am the intermediary between our Uni's IT
department and WMS. We had to update the schema recently, so I
