Exactly the scenario at IISH Tim, at least for part of our serials
collection.
And Dan Scott is all too right for both of us:
"..
looking for a way to populate the new
serials tables with legacy MFHD data. And I'm not sure there
currently
is a way to get there from here, where "here" =
serial.record_entry or
your previous ILS's export of MFHD records.
.."
And I am not a (PostgreSQL) database expert but it seems attractive
to create "some sort of in-database solution that parses the rows of
MFHD Holding Record information in serial.record_entry and uses that
to populate those new serials tables" and that way build on the
already existing marcbre + marcsre tools rather than create an
external tool from scratch - probably based on a "staging table"
approach?
I would also like to point out and stress the following:
also an EXPORTING command line tool for these new serials tables is
missing: this would rebuild a full MFHD record from those tables.
That way you can:
- be sure that the new Serials Management functionalities "do the
right thing" :-) with your MFHD (legacy) data
- avoid "data lock-in" : if at some point you wish to move from the
"Evergreen ILS" to " Futuregreen" you can be sure of MARC compliant
MFHD to do so
Repke
Op 6-nov-2010, om 23:04 heeft Tim Spindler het volgende geschreven:
Specifically we are looking at exporting Marc with 853, 863 , etc and
importing into Evergreen. If I understand serials module correctly, it
builds prediction schedule from mtgs publication pattern.
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On Nov 6, 2010, at 2:02 AM, Dan Scott <d...@coffeecode.net> wrote:
On Fri, Nov 05, 2010 at 03:36:06PM -0400, Mike Rylander wrote:
On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 2:15 PM, Tim Spindler
<tjspind...@gmail.com> wrote:
Regarding the command line and the MFHD, will/does Vandelay support
importing the MFHD fields?� We are hoping this will be our
path to migrating
serials data when we go live.
There is, indeed, such a command line tool. The indomitable Dan
Scott
added Open-ILS/src/extras/import/marc2sre.pl a while back for the
purpose of priming MFHD records. It requires that you have the
internal ID of your Evergreen bib records embedded in the MFHD
records
that link to said. Beyond that restriction, you simply point it at
your MFHD MARC and it will generate a file full of 'sre' records
suitable for loading with pg_loader, just like 'bre' and 'are'
records.
Aw, that's nice of you Mike, but I think the question was more
about the
new serials support (check-in UIs and circulating serials) and less
about the non-circulating serials MFHD-based support. If I read
Tim and
Repke's questions right, they're looking for a way to populate the
new
serials tables with legacy MFHD data. And I'm not sure there
currently
is a way to get there from here, where "here" =
serial.record_entry or
your previous ILS's export of MFHD records.
