[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Serials in alpha4

[Tim Spindler]

Specifically we are looking at exporting Marc with 853, 863 , etc and
importing into Evergreen. If I understand serials module correctly, it
builds prediction schedule from mtgs publication pattern.

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On Nov 6, 2010, at 2:02 AM, Dan Scott <dan at coffeecode.net> wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 05, 2010 at 03:36:06PM -0400, Mike Rylander wrote:
>> On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 2:15 PM, Tim Spindler <tjspindler at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Regarding the command line and the MFHD, will/does Vandelay support
>>> importing the MFHD fields?� We are hoping this will be our path to migrating
>>> serials data when we go live.
>>>
>>
>> There is, indeed, such a command line tool.  The indomitable Dan Scott
>> added Open-ILS/src/extras/import/marc2sre.pl a while back for the
>> purpose of priming MFHD records.  It requires that you have the
>> internal ID of your Evergreen bib records embedded in the MFHD records
>> that link to said.  Beyond that restriction, you simply point it at
>> your MFHD MARC and it will generate a file full of 'sre' records
>> suitable for loading with pg_loader, just like 'bre' and 'are'
>> records.
>
> Aw, that's nice of you Mike, but I think the question was more about the
> new serials support (check-in UIs and circulating serials) and less
> about the non-circulating serials MFHD-based support. If I read Tim and
> Repke's questions right, they're looking for a way to populate the new
> serials tables with legacy MFHD data. And I'm not sure there currently
> is a way to get there from here, where "here" = serial.record_entry or
> your previous ILS's export of MFHD records.