[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Serials in 2.0: anyone working on import script for existing MFHD records

[Jonathan Rochkind]

I don't know what you guys are working on and am sure it  
(appropriately) needs to meet your own local requirements. But I  
figured I'd throw out the major thing that frustrates me with my  
existing ILS 'holdings' and is appropriate especially if you are  
making the actual internal data model more powerful than MFHD:

I'd REALLY like to be able to have software ask my ILS "do you have  
this PARTICULAR volume and issue of this serial, and if so, what  
holding [with location, call number, status, etc] includes it."  Can't  
do that with my ILS.

Probably matters a lot more for academic libraries than public  
libraries, which in my experience don't usually have much print serial  
backfiles.  But for academic libraries it's kind of huge, it  
frustrates me that if a user comes to my interface wanting a  
particular volume/issue/page number of a serial (and that's usually  
what you're going to want, as an academic user), my interface is  
incapable of directing her to it or telling her conclusively that we  
don't have it, but instead has to give her a long list of  
inconsistently formatted 'holdings statements' and make her try to  
sort it out for herself.

On Jan 6, 2011, at 1:53 PM, Galen Charlton wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Jan 6, 2011, at 12:56 PM, Tim Spindler wrote:
>> 4. Prediction schedule for tracking and receiving of serials will  
>> be created
>
> I can't speak to what Dan is coding, but one thing that i should  
> point out is that MFHDs generally don't record the date of the next  
> expected issue (or any proxy for when to start a predication cycle),  
> so necessarily some additional information would need to be supplied  
> to pick up .  A direct "export MFHD from ILS X/import MFHD into  
> Evergreen" function will almost certainly need an intermediate step  
> of data processing and extraction.
>
> Regards,
>
> Galen
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