Re: [Koha] migration to koha

[Robin Sheat]

Richard Maileseni schreef op do 24-10-2013 om 12:28 [+1300]:
 Im working on how to migrate to Koha from another ILS. Ive finished
 installing Koha but just wondering if anyone could help me on ways of
 migrating to koha. what are things that i might need to do or know
 before
 continuing from this point.

That's not really an easy question to give a simple answer, there's a
lot involved.

However, in a nutshell:
* Get the biblio and item data out of the existing system in a usable
format. Preferably MARC, but if you can only do CSV, then use that.
* Poke at the data (I use Perl scripts for this[0]) until it fits what
Koha needs, in MARC format.
* Load the data into Koha, find mistakes, repeat.
* Do the same for the borrower and circulation data.

It's also worth asking here if anyone has expertise in the particular
system that you're migrating from.

I should really write a wiki page on this.

[0] The tools I use are here:
https://gitorious.org/koha-toolbox/catalyst-koha-migration-toolbox

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Re: [Koha] migration to koha

[Robin Sheat]

Robin Sheat schreef op do 24-10-2013 om 14:22 [+1300]:
 [0] The tools I use are here:
 https://gitorious.org/koha-toolbox/catalyst-koha-migration-toolbox

Actually, I just gave it its own project, here:

https://gitorious.org/koha-migration-toolbox

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Re: [Koha] Migration of Koha - No Results found !

[amutsikiwa]

Thank you very much!  It's now working.  This page was also helpful
http://kohablog.wordpress.com/2011/03/31/re-indexing-the-zebra-index-databas
e-by-hand/ 

 

 

From: Yohannes Mulugeta [mailto:yohannesm...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2011 7:49 PM
To: amutsikiwa
Cc: koha@lists.katipo.co.nz
Subject: Re: [Koha] Migration of Koha - No Results found !

 

Hi,

 

You need to re index or rebuild Zebra.

 

cheers,

2011/10/18 amutsikiwa amutsik...@uzlib.uz.ac.zw

 

Hi

 

I have recently installed my backed up koha files and database on my laptop
for demonstration purposes.  Everything went on well. However, If I do a
title search for a book in the database I am getting the following:

 No results match your search for kw,wrdl: Introduction to Software
Engineering in catalogue 

 

Is there something I should run to re-index the database? What should I do
to make Items in the catalogue searchable on OPAC

Kind Regards,

 

Admire Mutsikiwa

ICT Projects Manager

Library IT

University of Zimbabwe

Tel:+263-4-303276

Cel:+263-772-239187 tel:%2B263-772-239187 

 

 


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