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

[Bill Erickson]

On Thu, Aug 09, 2012 at 03:36:33PM -0400, Mary Llewellyn wrote:
> 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. 

Not in its current form, no.  However, the script does use Vandelay for
loading, so it likely just needs a new configuration option for a
default match set (it already understands merge profiles) and a little 
bit of code to pass it along to vandelay.  Perhaps a good LP wishlist item.

-b

> 
> Mary
> 
> Mary Llewellyn
> Database Manager
> Bibliomation, Inc.
> Middlebury, CT
> mllewell at biblio.org
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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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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