[OPEN-ILS-DEV] MARC Record Import from txt

[Elliot Voris]

Thanks, John!

Thanks for the point in the right direction! Unfortunately, my records do have namespace identifiers. The wiki says I need to "do a horrible thing and ensure that there are no namespace prefixes in front of the element names." How might I do that? I played a bit with find/replace, but I don't know what namespaces I might be looking for.

Any help, would be hugely appreciated!

Thanks!

Elliot
________________________________
From: open-ils-dev-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org [open-ils-dev-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org] on behalf of John Craig [jc-mailinglist at alphagconsulting.com]
Sent: Friday, December 09, 2011 2:44 PM
To: Evergreen Development Discussion List
Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] MARC Record Import from txt

Elliot Voris wrote:
Hi, Dev Mailing List

I’ve got a fresh installation of Evergreen 2.1.1, running on a fresh installation of Ubuntu 10.04.3.

I also have a very long list (23,000-something) of MARC records that I need to import into the system. I tested out doing this through the staff client. It worked in smaller batches, but would timeout when trying to do anything substantial. Right now; they’re in MarcXML format, in a .txt file. What’s the best way to import all my MARC records into the database?
With some caveats, there's still some good info here:

http://open-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=evergreen-admin:importing:bibrecords&s[]=marc2bre&s[]=pl

Under Evg 2.1.1, the direct_ingest.pl has been superceeded, so assuming your MARC XML records have no namespace identifier in front of the tags (search for "no namespace prefixes" in the link above to find the explanation and examples). You can skp the direct_ingest.pl step, and just do the pg_loader.pl step. The "Adding metarecords..." step is also obsolete. Look at the section "Example: Importing the Project Gutenberg records" to find the way to actually invoke pg_loader.pl and then run the script via psql. It'll still be somewhat slow, but it shouldn't time out on you.

John

Thanks!

Elliot J Voris
IT Director
Saint Louis Christian College

evoris at slcconline.edu<mailto:evoris at slcconline.edu>
314.837.6777 x 1250



__________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 6697 (20111209) __________

The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus.

http://www.eset.com



__________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 6697 (20111209) __________

The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus.

http://www.eset.com
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://libmail.georgialibraries.org/pipermail/open-ils-dev/attachments/20111209/3aa9e3c2/attachment.htm>