[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] marc_stream_importer.pl

[Martha Driscoll]

Hi Kyle,
I use marc_stream_importer.pl to load files of marc records.  It takes a 
number of command line arguments including the queue you want to use and 
the merge profile.  The queue will contain the record match set and 
holdings profile if you are loading copies.  You can create an empty 
queue in Vandelay by selecting your record match set and holdings 
profile and click upload without specifying a file.

Marc_stream_importer.pl assumes you are importing all the records with 
an exact match on the 901 $c.  To use a vandelay match set, you need the 
updated version of marc_stream_importer.  Bill Erickson made some 
changes to to enable the command line option to specify a merge profile. 
   This version also supports overlay 1 match, overlay best match, and 
import non-matching records.

Here is how I load a file:

marc_stream_importer.pl  --spoolfile /home/opensrf/file-7 --user xxx
--password xxx --source 102 --merge-profile 2 --queue
   11391 --auto-overlay-best-match --import-no-match --nodaemon

You can find this version here:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/evergreen/+bug/1279998

Marc_stream_importer.pl will empty the queue when it is finished (unless 
there were errors for whatever reason).  It will also delete the file 
you loaded, so if you want to retain a copy of the marc file, make a copy.

Vandelay works best when loading no more than 500 records at a time.  I 
split my large files using yaz-marcdump and then either load them one at 
a time or put a script file together to load them one after the other.


Martha Driscoll
Systems Manager
North of Boston Library Exchange
Danvers, Massachusetts
www.noblenet.org

On 4/17/2014 6:37 PM, Kyle Tomita wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am trying to use marc_stream_importer.pl to import a list of marc
> records (in a mrc file) and use a vandelay merge profile.  Can you use
> marc_stream_importer.pl to import a marc file instead of a vandelay queue?
>
> Kyle Tomita
>
> Developer II, Catalyst IT Services
>
> Beaverton Office
>
> Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE smartphone
>