On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 2:56 AM, soulemane moumie moumi...@yahoo.fr wrote:
Hi Elaine !
I must admit that you are a life saver, I have regained the hope to
complete my project.
I just do as you mention and every thing went smoothly. What about This
is why it may be quicker to combine the records offline before uploading
them.
Doing the work on the records before you upload them may take fewer steps
than merging records in Koha. It depends on how many duplicates you have in
your collection. In our case there are a lot of duplicates - we sometimes
have a dozen copies of the same thing, but they were each given individual
records in our old system. They were in a database that allowed me to match
up duplicates and combine all the item information and put it into one
record without too much trouble. We have location, provenance and
collection information for specific items, so these codes had to be linked
to the items. Once I had all this in order, our technical person wrote some
code that took our database fields and added MARC tagging.
What you do depends on what software you use, and how much item
information you have. If it is only a few duplicates, then you may find
it easier to do it in Koha after they are uploaded.
How can I achieve this offline operation ?
I am very much grateful for your support in my eager desire to explore
koha.
Thanks.
*Moumi*é* Soul*é*mane
Assistant Programmer, OCP, MCTS, JCP
Department of Computer Science Engineering
Islamic University of Technology(IUT)
Board Bazar, Gazipur-1704, Bangladesh.
Cellular: +880192-1628880,+8801921628880*
--- En date de : *Jeu 17.1.13, Elaine Bradtke e...@efdss.org* a écrit :
De: Elaine Bradtke e...@efdss.org
Objet: Re: [Koha] Merge records (was add only item info for duplicate
records)
À: soulemane moumie moumi...@yahoo.fr
Cc: koha koha@lists.katipo.co.nz
Date: Jeudi 17 janvier 2013, 19h47
On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 8:31 AM, soulemane moumie
moumi...@yahoo.frhttp://mc/compose?to=moumi...@yahoo.fr
wrote:
Hi Elaine!
Thanks for taking your precious time to answer my questions.
Please what you meant by Once in Koha you can merge biblios, to get all
the items into one record, . Are saying that there is an option in koha
for merging identical record ?
Or doing it manually ?
I really appreciate your help. I am new to koha and I am going to
implement/customize it for our library.
Yes, you can merge records in Koha. This combines the information
(including item records) into one biblio. To do this:
Search for the title.
Select the items you wish to merge and save them to a list.
Go to the list and again select the titles you wish to merge
Click on the button (at the bottom of the list ) Merge selected records
You will be asked to choose a reference record - think of this as the base
record into which any other information will be added (so if one record is
more complete than the other, choose that one).
Click the Next button
The merging records are displayed under tabs on the left with the
reference record on top and the final version on the right under
Destination record.
Look at the other tabs and compare them with the destination record,
click on any fields you wish to add to the destination record.
When you have finished adding fields to the destination record, click
Merge
It will automatically move any items from the old records over to the new
record.
As you can see, it takes some time and effort to do this. This is why it
may be quicker to combine the records offline before uploading them.
Still, sometimes my colleagues forget to search our catalogue before
adding another record, and when I find the duplicates I merge them.
I hope this helps
Elaine
Regards.
*Moumi*é* Soul*é*mane
Assistant Programmer, OCP, MCTS, JCP
Department of Computer Science Engineering
Islamic University of Technology(IUT)
Board Bazar, Gazipur-1704, Bangladesh.
Cellular: +880192-1628880,+8801921628880*
--- En date de : *Mer 16.1.13, Elaine Bradtke
e...@efdss.orghttp://mc/compose?to=e...@efdss.org
* a écrit :
De: Elaine Bradtke e...@efdss.org http://mc/compose?to=e...@efdss.org
Objet: Re: [Koha] add only item info for duplicate records
À: soulemane moumie
moumi...@yahoo.frhttp://mc/compose?to=moumi...@yahoo.fr
Date: Mercredi 16 janvier 2013, 22h36
We moved all the item info to a single book record before importing. Our
old database allows us to run a de-duplication script and then I manually
combined the duplicate records. Yes, it's a pain. Once in Koha you can
merge biblios, to get all the items into one record, but I wouldn't want to
do this for a large number of things.
It would be nice if there were an easier way, I just don't know what it is.
Elaine
On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 6:45 AM, soulemane moumie
moumi...@yahoo.frhttp://mc/compose?to=moumi...@yahoo.fr
wrote:
Hi!
I want to import my newly created marc file into koha.
Everything is imported
