2009/11/3 Christopher Curry <ccu...@amphilsoc.org>: > Hello all, > > We're in the middle of migrating MARC data to Koha. We tried importing > serials data into Koha and a record that had 1900+ items attached did not > import. I found the record and tested importing it, removing items until it > would import and found out that 1238 was the maximum number of items I could > import with one MARC record. Can anyone tell me if there is a way to > configure the import to accept more items? > > I used bulkmarcimport.pl on Koha 3.0.1, running on Debian Lenny.
I think you are running into one of the limitations that the MARC format inhertited from the days when magnetic tape was the cool new thing... "Record length (character positions 00-04 [in the leader]), contains a five-character ASCII numeric string equal to the length of the entire record, including itself and the record terminator. The five-character numeric string is right justified and unused positions contain zeroes (zero fill). ***The maximum length of a record is 99999 octets***." (My attempt at emphasis.) http://www.loc.gov/marc/specifications/specrecstruc.html#genrec And if you have enough items you reach that limit in size. I have this same problem with one of the records i tried to import for my client #1 - my plan is to try and transform the record to MARCXML, which does not impose arbitrary limits on the size of a record, and import that with the "-m MARCXML" option for bulkmarcimport.pl. Regards, Magnus Enger libriotech.no _______________________________________________ Koha-devel mailing list Koha-devel@lists.koha.org http://lists.koha.org/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel
