I presented on how I got MARCXML out of III using Xrecords at Code4Lib
2010.   Here are the links:

Presentation and conf page:  http://code4lib.org/conference/2010/walls
Video:
http://www.archive.org/details/BecomingTrulyInnovativeMigratingFromMillenniumToKoha-IanWalls
Code:  http://contribs.koha.org/revision_view.php?rid=19

Let me know if you have any questions.


-Ian

On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 11:39 AM, Kyle Banerjee <[log in to unmask]>wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 8:29 AM, Walker, David <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>
> > Hey Eric,
> >
> > Is this an Innovative system you have access to (at Notre Dame)?  And do
> > you need to do this one time only, or does it need to be automated and
> > ongoing?
> >
> > If it's a system you have access to, and you only need it once, then you
> > might just have one of the staff there use the Millennium client to get
> > these records.  Innovative provides modules (Create Lists and Data
> Exchange)
> > to search for and export MARC records.  There is, of course,
> documentation
> > for that.
> >
>
> There is also a function in the character based system that allows you to
> export MARC records. This can easily be automated with expect.
>
> If it is ongoing and you only need individual records, you can also ask
> target systems to enable XRECORD for bib records in their system. This will
> enable you to pull up records in XML that contain all the fields in their
> full glory. I strongly recommend against this option as it is one of the
> most insane schemas I've ever seen, it doesn't deal with certain characters
> properly, and you can only harvest by control number.
>
> There is also a syntax that you can use to pull individual records from the
> "staff" view in the public OPAC that gives you a textual representation of
> the MARC record. This can be parsed and converted to a real MARC record.
>
> If you need all records in the system, the expect route through the
> character based system is the best. The other methods can be used in a
> pinch.
>
> I recommend against Data Exchange not because it doesn't work (though the
> last time I checked it didn't work well with large sets), but because you
> can't automate it and it forces you to work though a java gui client.
>
> kyle
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