[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Introduction - new installation

[Jason Etheridge]

On 4/9/07, Larry Levesque <ka1vgm at levektronix.com> wrote:
> Maybe I am missing something but is there a way to scan a bunch of ISBN and import them into the program from a web grab of info / MARC record?

Hi Larry,

Currently, any sort of batch loading has to be done server-side at the
command-line level.  Through the staff client, you can load one record
at a time through z39.50, or you can create a record from scratch by
hand.

I'm cross-posting to OPEN-ILS-DEV here; it should be easy to feed a
list of ISBNs to a Perl/Python/Ruby script and have it batch retrieve
from a Z39.50 or SRU service, or through the Amazon API (and maybe
even a bash script and wget would do the trick in the case of Amazon,
with REST).  Any volunteers?  If not, I'll give it a go soon-ish.

I think we'd need Mike and/or Dan to explain how to get records thus
retrieved loaded into Evergreen, though.

-- 
Jason Etheridge
GPLS -- PINES Development
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