Migrating a CDS/ISIS based system to Koha.

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I am doing this migration from CDS/ISIS (version : 1.5) system to Koha for St. Joseph's College, Devagiri, Calicut. http://devagiricollege.org/ In the current system it is possible to do circulation and other basic functionalities of the library.

The work is in progress, so give any pointers if you have.

1. First I exported Books data into XML using CDS/ISIS export tool (available in the ISIS Utils menu).
2. Then I wrote a python script to convert XML to tab delimited text format.

Here is a sample XML

1. Then a perl script to convert this tab seperated text file to MARC.
2. To convert member details to Koha, first I exported member data base into XML.

then wrote a python script to convert it to tab sperated text file. Later to load it into MySQL LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE “members.txt” INTO TABLE borrowers;

the other details will follow in coming days,weeks,months….

Please write your comments, suggestions etc.

Baiju M E-mail : baijum81 AT lycos.com