Might be radical, but I told my vendors how I wanted my MARC 952 to look and they are complying no cost to me since I'm paying for the records... ;)
Follett is in compliance David savitra wrote: > > for some reason people did not receive this. > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: savitra sirohi <savitra.sir...@osslabs.biz> > Date: Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 9:36 AM > Subject: Need to Modify Marc Import Tool > To: koha-devel <koha-devel@lists.koha.org> > > > Folks, > > One of our customers wants the ability to import Follett marc records > without having to use Marc Edit (to change fields 852 to 952). > > We want to make this change generic such that it will work for any > import file that has holdings in fields other than 952. > > This is what we were thinking, will appreciate feedback on this design: > > 1. Use marc_subfield_structure table to store field structure of the > import file. So Follett would have records under its framework code. > We could create frameworks for other vendors too. > 2. Accept framework code as user input from stage-marc-import.pl. User > could choose nothing which means input file already has holdings in > 952. Or could choose Follett or some other vendor. > 3. Pass framework code as parameter to BatchStageMarcRecords > (C4/ImportBatch.pm) and from there to AddItemsToImportBiblio > (C4/ImportBatch.pm). > 4. In AddItemsToImportBiblio > - Use the input framework code in GetMarcFromKohaField (C4/Biblio.pm) > to fetch Follett holdings fields and subfields > - Fetch default fields and subfields (952) using null framework code, as > is currently done. > - For each subfield set values appropriately (in the case of Follett > 952s = 852s) before saving item record. > 5. Initially the code will help with holdings tags, and later we could > extend this to biblio tags as well. > > Thanks, > Savitra Sirohi > Nucsoft OSS Labs > http://www.osslabs.biz > > _______________________________________________ > Koha-devel mailing list > Koha-devel@lists.koha.org > http://lists.koha.org/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Need-to-Modify-Marc-Import-Tool-tp22469564p22489774.html Sent from the Koha - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ Koha-devel mailing list Koha-devel@lists.koha.org http://lists.koha.org/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel
