Re: [CODE4LIB] exporting marc records from iii

2011-02-21 Thread Eric Lease Morgan
On Feb 18, 2011, at 10:48 AM, Eric Lease Morgan wrote: > How does a person go about exporting MARC records from a III system? Thank you for all of the very helpful replied regarding the exporting of MARC records from a III system. I'm well on my way to resolving the problem, and I've ended up

Re: [CODE4LIB] exporting marc records from iii

2011-02-21 Thread Kyle Banerjee
> > Part of the original question was trying to find only those records that > matched a certain criteria. If that were still desired and those records had > a unique index entry, then the XML server could make that a much less > intensive search than crawling through the whole record space. > Thi

Re: [CODE4LIB] exporting marc records from iii

2011-02-19 Thread David Jones
>>> On 2/18/2011 at 12:22 PM, Kyle Banerjee wrote: > XML server is not required to get bib records in XML. This can simply be > enabled in WWWOPTIONS. XML Server is another product that contains > significant additional features, but any system can display certain record > types in XML. Part of

Re: [CODE4LIB] exporting marc records from iii

2011-02-18 Thread Simon Spero
Using the OPAC interface it's possible to harvest binary marc records from III including deleted record detection and id for use in persistent URLS, at a rate of about 4m/hr, with minimal impact on interactive use. This approach does not get all the holdings data; a second pass is needed, and has

Re: [CODE4LIB] exporting marc records from iii

2011-02-18 Thread Becky Yoose
Seconded. AutoIt, MacroExpress, and others can only do so much with the Millennium interface. You're better off with Expect. There's no way to automate the Lists and DE interfaces painlessly. However, if you do find yourself needing (or forced) to go down that road, you can find some info (using A

Re: [CODE4LIB] exporting marc records from iii

2011-02-18 Thread Kyle Banerjee
> 3) Did they purchase the XML Server product [3] when it was available? > XML server is not required to get bib records in XML. This can simply be enabled in WWWOPTIONS. XML Server is another product that contains significant additional features, but any system can display certain record types in

Re: [CODE4LIB] exporting marc records from iii

2011-02-18 Thread Gabriel Farrell
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 12:53 PM, David Jones wrote: On 2/18/2011 at 08:23 AM, "Westman, Stephen" wrote: >> I'm currently exploring how we can use the Millennium Java client to do the >> same thing (if anybody knows how to do that, I would love to hear because we >> don't want to be dependin

Re: [CODE4LIB] exporting marc records from iii

2011-02-18 Thread Tobin Cataldo
On 2/18/2011 11:53 AM, David Jones wrote: On 2/18/2011 at 08:23 AM, "Westman, Stephen" wrote: I'm currently exploring how we can use the Millennium Java client to do the same thing (if anybody knows how to do that, I would love to hear because we don't want to be depending on the telnet client

Re: [CODE4LIB] exporting marc records from iii

2011-02-18 Thread David Jones
>>> On 2/18/2011 at 08:23 AM, "Westman, Stephen" wrote: > I'm currently exploring how we can use the Millennium Java client to do the > same thing (if anybody knows how to do that, I would love to hear because we > don't want to be depending on the telnet client since it may go away > someday)

Re: [CODE4LIB] exporting marc records from iii

2011-02-18 Thread David Jones
>>> On 2/18/2011 at 07:48 AM, Eric Lease Morgan wrote: > How does a person go about exporting MARC records from a III system? Whenever this comes up, I'm always reminded of those troubleshooting workflow diagrams that always end up with a output of "you poor bastard" regardless of the path cho

Re: [CODE4LIB] exporting marc records from iii

2011-02-18 Thread Ian Walls
I presented on how I got MARCXML out of III using Xrecords at Code4Lib 2010. Here are the links: Presentation and conf page: http://code4lib.org/conference/2010/walls Video: http://www.archive.org/details/BecomingTrulyInnovativeMigratingFromMillenniumToKoha-IanWalls Code: http://contribs.koha.

Re: [CODE4LIB] exporting marc records from iii

2011-02-18 Thread Rob Casson
all good suggestions so far.some colleagues have been poking around davidWalker's excellent shrew project (with code.google.com timing out for me on some projects right now. strange): http://code.google.com/p/shrew/ overview of options is also found at III's customer documentation site,

Re: [CODE4LIB] exporting marc records from iii

2011-02-18 Thread Tobin Cataldo
Have you tried connecting to the III server(s) with Z39.50? On 2/18/2011 9:48 AM, Eric Lease Morgan wrote: How does a person go about exporting MARC records from a III system? As you may or may not know, I spend a lot of my time developing a thing colloquially called the "Catholic Portal". I

Re: [CODE4LIB] exporting marc records from iii

2011-02-18 Thread Kyle Banerjee
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 8:29 AM, Walker, David wrote: > Hey Eric, > > Is this an Innovative system you have access to (at Notre Dame)? And do > you need to do this one time only, or does it need to be automated and > ongoing? > > If it's a system you have access to, and you only need it once, th

Re: [CODE4LIB] exporting marc records from iii

2011-02-18 Thread Walker, David
Libraries [CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Eric Lease Morgan [emor...@nd.edu] Sent: Friday, February 18, 2011 7:48 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: [CODE4LIB] exporting marc records from iii How does a person go about exporting MARC records from a III system? As you may or may not know, I sp

Re: [CODE4LIB] exporting marc records from iii

2011-02-18 Thread Westman, Stephen
Original Message- From: Code for Libraries on behalf of Eric Lease Morgan Sent: Fri 2/18/2011 10:48 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: [CODE4LIB] exporting marc records from iii How does a person go about exporting MARC records from a III system? As you may or may not know, I spend

[CODE4LIB] exporting marc records from iii

2011-02-18 Thread Eric Lease Morgan
How does a person go about exporting MARC records from a III system? As you may or may not know, I spend a lot of my time developing a thing colloquially called the "Catholic Portal". It uses VUFind under the hood, and it requires me to ingest bibliographic data from a myriad of libraries. Sup