Koha/Interoperability

Koha can import/export data and read data from other catalogs. This wiki page attempts to document the interoperability of Koha with other book cataloging systems.

Technologies employed

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z39.50
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OAI-PMH
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MARC_standards
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isbn

Koha MARC

• http://manual.koha-community.org/3.12/en/catguides.html#itemcatguide
• http://lib2.dss.go.th/elib/marc21/examples.html
• http://hstalks.com/main/lib_marc.php
• http://www.oclc.org/marc-records.en.html
• http://www.loc.gov/marc/marctools.html

Migration

• http://manual.koha-community.org/3.12/en/implementation.html#imp-migration
• http://manual.koha-community.org/3.2/en/implementation.html#imp-migration
• http://manual.koha-community.org/3.8/en/implementation.html#imp-migration
• http://opensource-ils.cci.utk.edu/content/koha-migration-process
• http://opensource-ils.cci.utk.edu/content/publications

Sample Data/Records

• http://bywatersolutions.com/2013/06/20/ebook-marc-for-koha

How to import MARC bibliographic records

1. Install MARCEDIT.
2. Add the 952 tag and fields required by Koha to the exported file using MARCEDIT. See this tutorial. These are:

952$a | Owning Library | Branch code
952$b | Holding Library | Branch code
952$y | Koha item type | Coded value

1. Import the .mrc file using the Koha admin interface. Or use the /usr/share/koha/bin/migration_tools/bulkmarcimport.pl tool.
2. Run the /usr/sbin/koha-rebuild-zebra -a -b -f -v library command to rebuild all the indexes.

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