New titles are first cataloged in OCLC and then added to FOLIO via https://walter.drew.edu/cgi-bin/folio/upload/index.php where
- upload MARC to MySQL which adds the MARC to the Louisa::titles db table
- create/update FOLIO instance parses the MARC into a JSON document and creates (POSTs) an instance in FOLIO - update functionality has not yet been accomplished
- update Solr index adds an eBook 999 to the MARC and puts it into the marc::marcs db table before adding it to the Solr index - this is ONLY eBook friendly at this point
What needs to be done next:
- Louisa's Unicorn titles are ready to be turned into FOLIO instances.
- They, and all of the titles that are already instances, need to have their MARCs' 999s transformed from Sirsi 999s to FOLIO 999s and added to the FOLIO::records dbTable.
- All of the above instances need to have an 856 added that will take you to Walter and show you the MARC - either the MARC in marc::marcs or in FOLIO::records
- Step 3, above, needs to be coded so that, rather than assume that the title is an eBook, it looks to FOLIO to craft the MARC's 999(s) and then adds said MARC to FOLIO::records before indexing same in Solr.
Questions:
- Does it matter which happens first? Not really if there's a good way to track which MARC's have been added to the FOLIO::records dbTable
- Maybe it would be good to update step 3 above first - then have the script that creates all of the new MARCs only run overnight and not during the day...
What the routine needs to be:
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