Win/ISIS is an old platform that was widely deployed at the recommendation of international development organizations (like UNESCO). It has long since halted 1st-party development. The software supports ISO 2709, but not MARC21. I believe some later versions improve a bit, but migrating between versions is apparently more difficult than migrating straight to a contemporary ILS.
> can records from WIN ISIS be transferred to your software? > Yes, but Evergreen expects to receive MARC21 records. Therefore, you will probably want to: - export ISIS records as ISO 2709 - download the freely available tool MarcEdit - use MarcEdit to convert ISO 2709 file to MARC21 (.mrc) - Evergreen > Cataloging > Marc Batch Import/Export > Import Records on the MARC21 file Ideally, you should also use migration as an opportunity to cleanup, standardize or otherwise enhance your metadata, most likely in the MarcEdit phase. The lack of an available translation may or may not be a bigger problem that data migration, depending on your timeframe, users, willingness to contribute translation, and project constraints. --Joe Atzberger Equinox Software, Inc.
