[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Importing from SIRSI

[Mike Rylander]

On Jan 18, 2008 6:46 PM, Grant Johnson <fgjohnson at upei.ca> wrote:
> Thanks Dan,
> This is good info.
>
> >>First things first - you need to install the Error Perl module (on Debian
> >>etch, that would be http://packages.debian.org/etch/liberror-perl) so that
> >>you can see what the actual error is. You installed using John Schmidt's
> >>script, right? Might need some tweaks :)
>
> John - You getting this?
>
> >Do I need to convert a default SIRSI record dump into something before
> > running this script?
> >>Dumb question here: are you dumping raw MARC records, or Unicorn's "flat"
> >>records? You definitely want to dump raw MARC.
> >>Our Unicorn system exports to MARC8, but we haven't paid for the Unicode
> >>functionality so if you have Unicode support your mileage may vary.
>
> OK - RAW Marc8 it is - I think that's what I did but I'll check.
> I'll post my results.

I'll second Dan's suggestion of using yaz-marcdump (from a recent
release of yaz) to convert to marcxml.  As yaz-marcdump is written in
C, and MARC::Charset is pure Perl, it's much MUCH faster.

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