Thanks, MJ. I tried converting an OCLC export to MARCXML using both marc2xml and a custom pymarc script, both imports choked and failed in Koha. I'm not sure where the issue lies, if it was just an artifact of one of the records I chose in testing.
For the list's benefit, we're trying out a workflow that looks like this: - use the "export to a file" option to download a MARC-8 file locally - use the Stage MARC Records for Import tool to import from the file - choose MARC-8 encoding in that tool's options It worked in my initial tests but we'll see how well staff take to it, and if the records have encoding problems. It's definitely a lot more work than simply exporting directly into the ILS. Best, Eric Phetteplace Systems Librarian California College of the Arts libraries.cca.edu | vault.cca.edu 510.594.3660 2>/dev/null On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 10:47 AM, MJ Ray <[email protected]> wrote: > On 24 June 2016 00:00:19 CEST, Eric Phetteplace <[email protected]> > wrote: > >learned today that the website's export function, which worked fine > >with > >our prior ILS Millennium, only exports records in MARC8 encoding and > >not > >UTF-8, so Koha doesn't work with it. > > It's been a while since I supported Mac OS X but I'm pretty sure that the > marc2xml terminal tool should be installable on it. That should convert > MARC 8 files to MARC XML ones that koha can import. > > Hope that helps! > > -- > Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. > _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org [email protected] https://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
