[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Migrartion of Horizon to Evergreen

[Yamil Suarez]

Erwin,

I would be interested in that type of Horizon to Evergreen migration  
information myself, but I do not think that there currently is a  
public collection of Horizon specific migration information. I believe  
that there are at least a dozen libraries, if not more, that have  
moved from Horizon to Evergreen in the last couple of years and they  
seemed to have either hired consultants like Alpha-G or Equinox  
Software to migrate them, or they customized existing Evergreen  
utilities and/or workflows to migrate their Horizon data themselves.  
The problem with customized tools is that they are not usually  
designed to be easily used at another Horizon library without heaving  
re-customizations.

In the official Evergreen documentation for version 2.0 (see links  
below) there are draft explanations on how to import MARC catalog data  
and flat file patron lists. This is the type of data that you can  
easily export from Horizon by using for example marcout.exe and with  
SQL queries off of your borrower tables. What I have not seen *yet* is  
explanations on how to migrate Horizon circulation parameters and  
patrons fines and circulation history. Though for now I would hire a  
consultant or vendor to help me with that, since they have been payed  
to do it for other libraries before.

Note, that others on the list my respond with corrections to my  
previous statements.

Good luck,
Yamil

http://docs.evergreen-ils.org/2.0/draft/html/	- draft HTML version
http://docs.evergreen-ils.org/2.0/draft/html/migratingdata.html

http://docs.evergreen-ils.org/2.0/draft/pdf/ 
Evergreen_Documentation.pdf	- draft PDF version

On May 20, 2011, at 10:57 AM, open-ils-general-request at list.georgialibraries.org 
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> Hello All,
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> Is there any documentations or procedures on how to migrate Horizon  
> to Evergreen? Thank you!
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> Erwin Mesa
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