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ERM coverage load test success January 23, 2008

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At long last. A small, but successful test “catalogue & coverage” load, using:

- serials solutions new replacements bibs loaded first;

- match on unique identifier; and then

- pouring the coverage info from the serials solutions, generating the checkin with correct holdings.

Yahoo!

Dashed hopes January 16, 2008

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My hopes of starting to load the serials solutions records this week were just dashed by Serials Solutions.  The very last test sample that I received from them, more as a precaution than anything else, and which should have been just a last verification, turned out not to be.  Something unexpected crept into the sample at their end.

Arrrrrrrggggghhhh.

I’ve informed them of the problem, but now have had to ask for two more samples — one for the “full record” set as we call it, and the other for the “brief supplemental” set, as the two different types of files seem to have somehow gotten out of synch.  I started looking at the load tables, and back at the sequence of notes, and decided that I am JUST NOT PLEASED with this.

Today has really been one of those days — i.e., I’ve had my pick of either being in dossier hell, or here!

On the cusp January 9, 2008

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Finally.  I hope to be loading those serials solutions records next week, all 24,000-odd of them.  Not all at once, but over a few days.  Serials Solutions only provides max file sizes of 5,000 records, but that sounds just fine to me.  The records aren’t perfect, but they’re very good, and we’ll just have to get accustomed to their characteristics.

Then there will a flurry of activity while we work out the sequencing of the coverage load hookup.

We’ll run the DBFinder simultaneously with the start of the ERM implementation, but that’s just fine and dandy.  It will take a bit of time to work out the kinks, but I’m anxious to get this party started!