[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen cataloging with OCLC Connexion client

[Mary Llewellyn]

Hi Bill, 

That is interesting, but we are making good use of the new Record Match sets
in Vandelay, matching on 001/035, 020, 024, and 028, so it doesn't sound
like the direct export from Connexion to Evergreen would be a good fit for
us. 

Mary

Mary Llewellyn
Database Manager
Bibliomation, Inc.
Middlebury, CT
mllewell at biblio.org



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[mailto:open-ils-general-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of
Bill Erickson
Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2012 2:26 PM
To: Evergreen Discussion Group
Cc: Hill, Ingrid
Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen cataloging with OCLC Connexion
client

On Thu, Aug 09, 2012 at 10:58:07AM -0400, Jason Etheridge wrote:
> > We generally work with the Connexion client, doing batch searches and
working offline. We export the records as a .dat file, and upload it to
Evergreen.
> 
> There's also a more direct way to interface Connexion with Evergreen 
> using marc_stream_importer.pl from the support-scripts directory, but 
> I'm not sure how it works.

Basically, the script runs as a daemon and listens on a configured port.
You configure Connexion exports to use the hostname and port number
associated with the running script.  When you export from Connexion, the
file is sent to your server and imported into Evergreen.  

The script supports 901c matching for merging/overlay and new record
creation.

-b

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