Implementing Scriblio
phil
but I'm having trouble importing anything. I've grabbed some MARC
records from Internet Archive, but when I go to the importer I can't
figure out what files I need to present for the object to be
ingested. Could I get an example, or how I could use a III or Horizon
library to import data? Will there be support for something like
OAI? (I have some collections housed in Fedora Commons available this
way).
Also, on the few things I have gotten imported (using the sample data
from the site) I don't see them as new pages or posts, so there's no
way to edit them.
Thanks
P
Casey Bisson
Phil,
thanks for trying out Scriblio.
The version that you probably installed suppresses the display of
catalog records from the front page of the site and from the
dashboard. The current SVN version changes that , so upgrading may
help you debug.
Even without upgrading, however, you can look for any records that may
have been importer with the following:
Go to your site's dashboard, click the User's tab from the far right
of the screen, and in the list of users find "cataloger" (that user is
created by the Scriblio plugin). In the right column of the list[1]
you'll see the count of posts for each user. Clicking on that number
will take you to a list of all those posts.
[1]: http://flickr.com/photos/scriblio/3015937702/
Because one of the problems you're facing is how to import from MARC,
it's possible (or likely) that you'll only see one item there. The
difficulty is in identifying a field that can represent the source id
the record. That is, a field that uniquely identifies that record in a
way that can prevent duplicates. The field generally varies based on
the system the records are coming from, but you can get a view of the
data in the record by ticking the "debug mode" checkbox.
The example's offered on screen there may help:
> to use barcodes from Infocenter: [852][0]->subfields['p']
> or to use the the Project Gutenburg ID: ['000'][0]->data
> or to use the LCCN: ['001'][0]->data
You can download a sample file of MARC records from Infocenter (the
first example) here:
http://about.scriblio.net/downloads/ScriblioSampleMarcRecords.mrc.zip
--Casey
Santillán
I was trying to import your sample file of MARC records from
Infocenter: http://about.scriblio.net/downloads/ScriblioSampleMarcRecords.mrc.zip
but we received next message:
"Fatal error: Call to undefined function curl_init() in C:\xampp\htdocs
\audiovisual\wp-content\plugins\scriblio\importer.php on line 766"
Scriblio does not run fine in my WP (2.6.3).
I am beginning to think that SCRIBLIO is not easy to install and
requires a lot of technical support to operate. It's frustrating :-(
Thanks in advance for any help you can give me.
Julio Santillan
Lima - Peru