Hi Katrin, Thanks for the reply... After a bit of a baptism of fire learning about MARC records and how to use MARCEdit I think we are there...
I have imported all the records that we could from our legacy system and we have a working Koha system now :-) Now we just need someone to take on the huge task of auditing all of the books and checking they are where the system thinks they are! Jon ----------------------------------------------------- Jon Witts Director of Digital Strategy ----------------------------------------------------- On Sat, 24 Jul 2021 at 16:31, Katrin Fischer <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Jon, > > just confirming you are on the right path there. While changing the item > mappings in Koha is possible, I'd always recommend against it. For > example you'd also have to change the indexing for Zebra/Elasticsearch > to match your new fields. Converting your data to 952 is the better option. > > Hope this helps, > > Katrin > > On 16.07.21 15:57, Jon Witts wrote: > > OK, so answering myself... > > > > I think I have got it to work now as best as I can... I imported the MARC > > export from our legacy system into MARCEdit, had to then verify it and > > remove invalid records. I could then use MARCEdit's switch fields tool > and > > replace subfields tools to create the required 952 items in the MARC file > > ready for import into Koha... > > > > Looking pretty good at the minute; need to do some further checks on the > > data, but it is certainly getting closer! > > > > Jon > > ----------------------------------------------------- > > > > Jon Witts > > Director of Digital Strategy > > ----------------------------------------------------- > > > > > > > > On Fri, 16 Jul 2021 at 09:06, Jon Witts <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > >> Hi there, > >> > >> I am a new Koha user and have just set up and installed a new Koha > >> instance for our school library. We are running on a single Ubuntu > server > >> and I followed the Ubuntu/ Debian install documentation and installed > from > >> the packages. > >> > >> I am now trying to import our catalogue from our legacy system (Softlink > >> Alice) and have run into some issues... > >> > >> In the MARC export from our legacy system the details for each item are > >> stored in the 852 fields, specifically: > >> * 852,k = Item Library name / location > >> * 852,h = Item classification i.e. F for fiction or 242 for non-fiction > >> Dewey code > >> * 852,i = Item suffix i.e. CAR for author Frank Carr > >> * 852,p = item barcode > >> * 852,t = item copy number > >> > >> I thought that I could use the "Koha to MARC Mapping" to edit this, but > >> after adding the new mappings in I get an error in the "MARC > >> bibliographic framework test", specifically: > >> > >> > >> > >> *ALL items fields MUST :be mapped to the same tag,and they must all be > in > >> the 10 (items) tab* > >> > >> On the "Koha to MARC Mapping" page it states "If you make any change to > >> the mappings, you must ask your administrator to run > >> misc/batchRebuildBiblioTables.pl.", however when I run > >> the /usr/share/koha/bin/batchRebuildBiblioTables.pl script I get the > >> following errors: > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> *unable to locate Koha configuration file koha-conf.xml at > >> /usr/share/koha/lib/C4/Context.pm line 188.Use of uninitialized value in > >> concatenation (.) or string at /usr/share/koha/lib/C4/Templates.pm line > >> 154.Use of uninitialized value $db_name in concatenation (.) or string > at > >> /usr/share/koha/lib/Koha/Database.pm line 91.Use of uninitialized value > >> $db_host in concatenation (.) or string at > >> /usr/share/koha/lib/Koha/Database.pm line 91.Use of uninitialized value > >> $db_name in concatenation (.) or string at > >> /usr/share/koha/lib/Koha/Database.pm line 91.Use of uninitialized value > >> $db_host in concatenation (.) or string at > >> /usr/share/koha/lib/Koha/Database.pm line 91.Use of uninitialized value > in > >> concatenation (.) or string at /usr/share/koha/lib/C4/Auth_with_cas.pm > line > >> 42.Use of uninitialized value $db_name in concatenation (.) or string at > >> /usr/share/koha/lib/Koha/Database.pm line 91.Use of uninitialized value > >> $db_host in concatenation (.) or string at > >> /usr/share/koha/lib/Koha/Database.pm line 91.Use of uninitialized value > >> $INC[-1] in string eq at /usr/share/koha/lib/Koha/Plugins.pm line 37.* > >> > >> Am I going about this the wrong way? How should I be mapping these 852 > >> fields into the 952 / items fields in Koha? > >> > >> Many thanks, > >> Jon > >> > >> ----------------------------------------------------- > >> > >> Jon Witts > >> Director of Digital Strategy > >> ----------------------------------------------------- > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ > > Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha > -- <http://queenmargarets.com/> 01904 727600 queenmargarets.com <http://queenmargarets.com/> Queen Margaret's, Escrick Park, York YO19 6EU *Come and be inspired... * Let us arrange a personalised virtual tour tailored to your requirements and chat to our Head and find out what a QM education can offer your daughter. 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