[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Import data from Voyager

[Don Hamilton]

Thanks Don. I'll try to keep myself from o-pining incorrectly when
referring to evergreen...
 
I browsed the scripts you mentioned in an earlier post, and several
questions about the foundations of all this arise, which I don't see in
the documentation.... So allow me to make some guesses about How Things
Work, and please correct me where I'm wrong.
 
In general, I'm guessing that the cataloguing process is to edit a marc
record and eventually  'save' it. At that point, the record gets passed
to the 'ingest' function, which writes the marc record to the database,
then kicks of a (re-)index process.
 
For a bulk loader, there are two choices... read each record and throw
it at 'ingest' or do something unique so that things happen in a more
efficient way. The one loader I found seemed to be the first option. 
 
I'd like to be able to easily iterate through successive loads of
several million bibliographic records, and can see the 'one at a time
method' as slow and inefficient.
 
Am I way off track here? How was the original PINES data migrated?  Is
there documentation on that process that I'm just not finding?
 
tia
 
don
 


>>> don.mcmorris at gmail.com 5/10/2007 3:03 PM >>>

Hey Don:

Sorry I missed your message to General.  It's been a hectic couple of
months!

Being that PINES doesn't have a Voyager install, I feel that a
migration toolkit for it would have to wait until either 1) Somebody
contributes it or, 2) A company providing support for Evergreen does a
migration from Voyager.

While I'm here, I just want to clarify some terms:
PINES is a branch of the Georgia Public Library Service (GPLS), and
provides automation/technical support for the public libraries' of
Georgia that opt-in.

EVERGREEN is the name of the actual ILS software developed and used by
staff at PINES.

Given all the code-names, it's easy to get terms confused (back when I
joined, I had a hard time with it myself).  I just want to make sure
that the right terms are being used so that we can provide the best
level of support.

Thanks for your input and interest! If you do want to proceed in
contributing some stuff, please let us know what you'd like to do, ask
questions, or whatever you want!

Sincerely Yours,
--Don

On 5/10/07, Don Hamilton <dhamilton at wlu.ca> wrote:
>
>
> Hi Don and Jason.
>
> I asked a similar question on the GENERAL list two days ago, with no
> response. Glad to see someone else interested. I did talk to Art
Rhyno, at
> Windsor, and they have not yet done a voyager load... but are keen to
use
> one if one develops.
>
> Jason, I know very little pines, and ours isn't actually running yet.
But I
> am keen for a converter/loader, especially the bibliographic side,
and would
> be planning a hook back to circulation once the data is loaded. I do
know
> enough of the voyager backend to help you with that if you need it.
>
> don
>
> ps. Can you only jump ship from voyager if you are moving to a wooden
ship
> made from fir trees?
>
> >>> qzou at lakeheadu.ca 5/9/2007 2:58 PM >>>
>
> Don McMorris wrote:
> > HI Jason:
> >
> > To my knowledge, there HASN'T been a complete import from Voyager
to
> > date.  I believe there are some scripts in the source tree that can
be
> > used as a starting point to help you import the data.
> >
> > --Don
> >
> > On 5/9/07, Jason Zou <qzou at lakeheadu.ca> wrote:
> >> Hi everyone,
> >>
> >> Is there anybody imported data from Voyager before? I am going to
start
> >> pouring data in my newly installed Evergreen. But I don't want to
invent
> >> wheel again.
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >>
> >> Jason Zou
> >>
> >
> Thanks Don,
>
> In this case, I have to use Perl write some scripts. Anyway, it will
be
> a good opportunity to learn Evergreen a bit.
>
> Jason Zou
>

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