Welcome Mark! I worked on some mandarin data in the past. Let me know if you have any questions
-Joy Sent from my iPhone > On Aug 28, 2016, at 5:21 PM, Mark Alexander <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > I'm a retired software geek, now living in a small town in Vermont > after many years in Silicon Valley. I've been using Linux on my own > computers for 20 years, and have hacked on everything from microkernels > in assembly language to web apps in Ruby on Rails. > > I also spent a year in NZ as a child and still consider it as my first > home, and miss it very much, though I've not been back since. It's > cool to see such great open source software originating from my old > homeland. > > Our town library currently uses proprietary software from Mandarin, > but I've been investigating what it would take to convert to Koha. > Many libraries here in Vermont are in a consortium that is using Koha > hosted by a commercial vendor. But the consortium is closed to > new members. > > So to see what it would take for us to build our own Koha installation > from scratch, I installed 16.05 (using git) in an Ubuntu 14.04 virtual > machine and have started to play around with it. I've exported our > catalog (about 22K items) from Mandarin into a MARC dump. Now I'm > figuring out what I need to do to import these records and correctly > set things like the item call number and item type. I may ask some > questions later if I get stuck. > > --Mark > _______________________________________________ > Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org > [email protected] > https://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org [email protected] https://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
