Time Nick Message 10:59 hdl you'll get a problem 10:59 hdl STOP 10:59 hdl with the same record (It is OK). 10:58 hdl You can use NEWnewbiblio and NEWnewitem. 10:58 hdl b) create an item attached to this biblio 10:58 hdl a) create a biblio 10:57 hdl Lea : You have to 10:52 Lea i had a quick question: The data I've got exported from this windows system is MARC21, but it contains barcode information. Now I've got no issues with converting this data into a bibliography set, but what strategy should i employ on importing items 10:51 Lea hi hdl. 10:50 hdl lea hi 08:51 Lea Hi! Anyone awake? :D 05:22 toins fine too 05:16 chris good thanks, how are you? 05:07 toins hi chris, how are you ? 05:07 chris hi toins 05:00 toins hello all 21:26 chris yep definitely 21:26 tumer with the handsome kid i hope 21:25 tumer here /Cyprus 21:24 tumer any way nice to find you all.And see you here some time 21:24 hdl solong 21:23 tumer s/spelleing/spelling and so on 21:23 chris :) 21:22 tumer KOHA is better in spellenig then I am!!! 21:21 tumer i bet he was saying taking ne to Cyprus 21:20 chris hehe 21:20 tumer wow, a real KOHA'er and hansome 21:18 chris http://photos.bigballofwax.co.nz/gallery2/v/kahurangi/DSC02520.JPG.html <-- theres a photo 21:17 tumer sorry rest???? 21:17 tumer good for for, less problems 21:17 chris mines a he :) 21:16 tumer them:/he/she 21:15 tumer hdl:hi 21:15 chris good idea tumer :) 21:15 chris http://oregonstate.edu/~reeset/blog/archives/417 21:15 tumer you should bring them to to cyprus for christening 21:15 hdl hi chris. 21:15 hdl tumer any link to terry Ree 21:15 chris hi hdl 21:15 chris and paul had another son 21:14 hdl paul is 4times father ;) 21:14 chris yes indeed, 3.5 months now 21:14 tumer chris: btw are you a father now? 21:11 chris cool 21:11 tumer i will read everything next week 21:10 chris I mention NEU in my last comment :) 21:09 chris yep 21:09 tumer yep and this person has the best Marc tool on GPL and keep recoomending him in all blogs 21:08 chris because i dont think he has actually looked 21:07 chris i think joshua might see him at the code4lib conference, so maybe he can show him Koha in person 21:07 chris yep, i commented on his blog entry 21:06 tumer are you with me ? about TR? 21:06 chris its a bit of a shame 21:06 chris he doesnt really get it 21:06 chris yes 21:06 chris ahhhh 21:06 tumer me just reading previous corresponce. TR from oregon university is Terry rEEs 21:06 chris but he doesnt like GPL ? 21:04 tumer its a shame that he has one of the best MARC modules avalaible on GPL for MARC 21:03 chris who is Tery Rees? 21:03 chris oh yeah really? 21:03 tumer chris: i am reading that Tery Rees wrote things not nice about KOHA and GPL licence software 20:59 tumer hiya mason 20:59 mason hiya tumer 20:59 chris hehe exactly 20:59 tumer althought the conference were on environment. But KOHA is vevrything right? 20:58 tumer the guy from new zealand did not not know know KOHA and poor guy felt out of plcae 20:57 tumer i whish you were here 20:57 chris :) 20:56 tumer but i managed to confirm that environementally KOHA is secure 20:56 tumer no all acacdemicians aboutt everthing 20:56 chris need a new zealander to come along? :) 20:55 chris wooo hoo :) 20:55 tumer but at least 79 universitieies from turkey decided about a workshop on koha in september --To be environtenlally secure !!!! 20:54 chris any librarians? 20:53 chris heh 20:53 tumer 108 countries 700 people only one frenech heard koha! 20:52 tumer even new-zelandeders didnot know about koha to my suprise 20:51 chris ahh right 20:51 tumer a conference on environment--nothing about koha 20:50 chris international disturbance? 20:50 tumer hi russ 20:50 tumer any real kohers around? 20:50 russ hi tumer 20:49 tumer i am really here after 10 days of international disturbance 18:00 chris hmm england will want to bounce back too ... vive la france :-) 17:45 paul yep. and not in france, but in england. 17:43 chris france plays england this week eh? 17:43 chris yeah that was pretty amazing 17:42 paul the biggest surprise coming from italy that had it's 1st victory outside of Italy since she is involved in the tournament 17:41 paul only 2 and "grand chelem" is for us ! 17:41 paul france is the only country that won it's 3 matches. 17:41 paul did you hear 6nations cup results ? 17:40 chris :-) 17:40 paul 9* months to do complete nights...) 17:40 chris but usually he sleeps 6 or 7 hours 17:40 paul (Jérémie, our 3rd boy, needed * 17:40 chris last night he woke up quite a bit 17:40 paul or does he still need some milk ? 17:39 paul are your night sleepy ? 17:39 chris very good, 3 months and 1 week old now (time goes fast) 17:39 paul how is Kahurangi ? 17:38 chris so Kahurangi has his first cousin 17:38 chris paul: my sister had her son on thursday 17:35 paul you will have to wait 1-2 days. 17:35 chris ill be waiting to see photos :-) 17:35 paul thx 17:35 chris congratulations paul 17:27 paul right. Even if i'll work only a few in march probably (and not very efficiently) 17:26 russ so she can look after the boys while you work on koha? ;-) 17:24 paul my wife mother is here to help us for almost 2 weeks. 17:24 paul yep. They'll be back home tomorrow morning. 17:24 paul 3.530kg, 52cm. The smallest of our 4 boys... 17:24 russ mother and baby well? 17:24 russ :-) 17:23 paul so now you know ;-) 17:23 russ congrats paul 17:23 russ i didn't 17:23 paul does NZ know that Matthieu Poulain is born on sunday, 11:26AM ? 17:22 _paul hello russ 16:37 cm thanks! 16:36 cm i'm fairly certain a lot of our dates in 008 are wrong. 16:36 cm okay, simple enough. 16:36 kados if you wanted to just have one place to deal with 16:36 kados so you coul remove the sort index on 008 16:36 kados yea 16:36 cm probably 260$c would be our most 'normal'. 16:36 kados let me know if you need more info 16:35 kados you'll need to pick a field or fields to 'normalize' 16:35 cm that makes sense. 16:35 kados so if you want to sort accurately by date 16:35 kados the marc data's not consistantly 4 chars long so it didn't work IIRC 16:35 cm ok. 16:35 kados think I was just experimenting with it 16:35 kados that'd be the year index 16:35 cm what does the :y do? 16:34 cm hmm, mine doesn't have Date:y. 16:34 kados yet 16:34 kados looks like there isn't one for 362 16:34 kados there's another sort index on Date 16:34 kados melm 260$c Date,Date:s,Date:y 16:34 cm yes, i've been staring at the zebra documentation. :) 16:34 kados that's one way 16:34 kados tells you there's a sort index (the s) on the range 11-14 16:34 cm so it's indexing by what's in 008? 16:33 kados Date:s:range(data,11,4) 16:33 kados that's the 008 line 16:33 kados melm 008 ln:n:range(data,35,3),ctype:w:range(data,24,4),Date:n:range(data,0,5),Date:s:range(data,0,5),Date:n:range(data,7,4),Date:s:range(data,7,4),Date:n:range(data,11,4),Date:s:range(data,11,4),pubdate:n:range(data,7,4),pubdate:s:range(data,7,4),dateaddeddb:n:range(data,0,5),dateaddeddb:s:range(data,0,5),pl:w:range(data,15,3),ta:w:range(data,22,1),ff8-23:w:range(data,23,1),ff8-29:w:range(data,29,1),lf:w:range(data,33,1),bio:w:range(data,34,1), 16:32 cm okay, cool. 16:32 kados cm: have a look at the "Dates" section there 16:32 kados cm: http://wiki.koha.org/doku.php?id=zebrasearchingdefinitions 16:31 cm i imported a record from NPL and it sorted properly, so I figured it was our data. 16:31 cm yeah, that's certainly a possible culprit. 16:31 kados i think i wrote a blurb about this somewhere, lemme track it down 16:30 kados p1999 16:30 kados or 16:30 kados c2004 16:30 cm yeah, i'm not suprised, given the state of our marc records. :) 16:30 kados my guess is that any weirdness you're seeing is because your dates are formatted like this: 16:30 cm is it looking at 008 or 260c or what? 16:30 kados it's MARC :-) 16:30 kados well it's not zebra's fault 16:30 cm uh oh... :) 16:30 kados hehe 16:30 cm i have a question about how zebra is sorting by publication date 16:29 kados cm: sure, what's up? 16:29 cm kados, do you have a moment? 12:05 cm do you want it in the chat you just opened? 11:59 hdl cm : yes please send me. 11:47 cm can I send somebody a diff? 11:46 cm but I fixed it. 11:46 cm i found some problems with Calendar.pm that kept me from deleting repeatable holidays, 11:46 cm morning all 11:17 atol Thanks for the help! 11:16 atol You can mail me at danny.aerts [a] atol.be if you want to try such an import. 11:16 atol To Paul: Sorry, was away from the computer