[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Exporting bib records--quick question

[Jason Stephenson]

Quoting Tony Bandy <tonyb at ohionet.org>:

> Hi all,
>
> If I may just ask for some thoughts on this process, I would appreciate it!
>
> We're in the process of exporting our records to Backstage for cleanup and

Stop right there.

Have you seen this:  
http://git.mvlcstaff.org/?p=jason/backstage.git;a=summary ?

It is explicitly written to do what needs to be done to export bib  
records for Backstage. It will also import the results for you when  
properly configured.



> I've been following the instructions in the documentation for export.  Our
> first batch went ok, however, our second batch throws an error similar to
> this:
>
> /home/opensrf/Evergreen-ILS-2.1.2/Open-ILS/src/support-scripts# cat
> /home/tonyb/Our_Export_Dec_13 | ./marc_export -i -c
> /openils/conf/opensrf_core.xml > -x /openils/conf/fm_IDL.xml -f XML
> --timeout 5 > Our_library_exported_files.xml
> Retrieving Org Units ... OK
> Retrieving Shelving locations ... OK
> Argument "<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>\n" isn't numeric in
> int at ./marc_export line 241, <> line 1.
>
> !!!!! Failed trying to read record 0
> Argument "<!--\n" isn't numeric in int at ./marc_export line 241, <> line 2.
>
>
> At this point, our first file and this file were the same (bib id's),
> so I know nothing has changed there.  So for my next stab at things, I
> tried to export in a bit different format:
>
>
> cat /home/tonyb/Our_library_Export_Dec_13 | ./marc_export -all
> --encoding UTF-8 > Our_library.mrc
>
>
> This puts things in regular UTF-8 instead of XML and currently this
> seems to work with no errors....however, this seems to want to export
> the entire DB at once instead of reading the Our_library files.
>
> Anybody have any ideas about the errors with the XML?  Is that only an
> XML thing and am I getting the equivalent by just exporting to mrc
> instead?
>
> This may seem basic, but just wanted to ask folks and make sure I'm on
> the right track here....thanks for your thoughts as you have a moment
> or two.....
>
> --
>
> Tony Bandy
> tonyb at ohionet.org
> OHIONET
> 1500 West Lane Ave.
> Columbus, OH  43221-3975
> 614-486-2966 x19
>



-- 
Jason Stephenson
Assistant Director for Technology Services
Merrimack Valley Library Consortium
Chief Bug Wrangler, Evergreen ILS