[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Introduction and Question

[Brandon W. Uhlman]

Hi, Larry. :)

Your friendly neighbourhood British Columbia Evergreen sysadmin here. :)

To the best of my knowledge, Georgia, the only other production  
Evergreen system (yet) did not migrate any Athena sites. Most systems  
were part of the previous Unicorn implementation for the  
already-extant consortium, and the incumbent ILS systems in the new  
members of PINES were not Athena sites.

To answer your questions as posted:

- The patron data in an Athena system is trivially exportable in dBase  
format. I'm not sure whether the same functionality exists for  
transactional and hold data, or for item-level data. Bibliographic  
data in MARC format is MARC data, and that's fine as it is.

- The database schema, mostly up-to-date, is available on the dokuwiki  
at http://open-ils.org/documentation/evergreen_1.1.3_erd.html.

- The Django piece is used to tickle some of the back-end settings  
like circ policies, what Evergreen calls org units (branches, library  
systems, etc.), and the like. If you've not used Djano before, it's  
worth a look at http://www.djangoproject.com/. Pretty whiz-bang stuff.

Cheers,

Brandon

Quoting Larry Stamm <lstamm at mcbridebc.com>:

> Hello All,
>
> I am working with one of the small British Columbia rural libraries
> that will be migrating to the Evergreen OpenILS in the not too distant
> future.  I am looking at getting the data out of our current Sagebrush
> Athena system and into the Evergreen DB, hoping to develop a somewhat
> automated script for all the other little libraries running Athena.
>
> I have successfully built Evergreen 1.2 in /usr/local/openils/ on a
> test server running Arch Linux, and am busy exploring the workings.
> My current questions are:
>
> 1. Is there any experience out there with migrating data out of
> Athena?  I can get biblio data into a MARC21 format, and I think I
> have figured out where all the circ and patron data reside in Athena's
> database, but it would be nice to get some confirmation.
>
> 2. Is there any listing of the tables in the Evergreen DB where the
> circulation and patron data reside?  I can figure it out eventually,
> but I'm a bit lazy....
>
> 3. Finally, where does the Django stuff residing in
> openils/var/admin/ils_admin fit into the scheme of things?
>
> Regards,
> --
> Larry Stamm, Network Administrator
> McBride and District Public Library
> Ph: 250-569-2411
> http://mcbride.bclibrary.ca
>



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Brandon W. Uhlman, Systems Consultant
Public Library Services Branch
Ministry of Education
Government of British Columbia
605 Robson Street, 5th Floor
Vancouver, BC  V6B 5J3

Phone: (604) 660-2972
E-mail: brandon.uhlman at gov.bc.ca
         brandon.uhlman at bclibrary.ca