It's hard to tell you how without looking into something like, e.g. if your original holdings statement in text format or even MARC format has any pattern or not.  To make such conversion happen, I worked with Gary L. Strawn, ExLibris Voyager Tech Support and our systems office due to limited access to the systems, etc. 

We migrated all of serials holdings statement from MARC bib 590 field into MARC holdings 86x fields in Voyager MFHD, including periodicals and continuations during migration from PALS to Voyager in summer 2004. 

Later for data recovery, I recovered holdings and barcoded item data through Voyager Oracle report in Web Admin, and converted the files into MARC holdings format and Voyager item format in batch processing mode using UltraEdit, MARCEdit, and asked ExLibris Voyager Tech Support team to load the data into our Voyager database.

It's a round trip data mapping and conversion process using NotePad, UltraEdit, Access, Excel, MARCEdit, Voyager Bulk import and export utility, and data report utilities in Voyager Web Admin, etc.  

It still required some manual verification and a little cleanup because the input data was not consistent in MARC 590 field due to the changing of encoding format for serials, turnover of the people working on holdings updates in local systems, and OCLC Union List of Serials, etc.  However, we proved that it's a scalable solution for library wanting to automate holdings data, including e-holdings for MFHDs and items.


Hope it helps!

Amanda Xu
      

On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 11:13 AM, Christina Torbert <ctorbert@olemiss.edu> wrote:

Our library has worked very hard to get our print holdings into MARC Format, but now we want to share that information with a third party listing service that has its own, different date format options.  Specifically, they need the beginning and ending dates in separate, delimited fields.  And they don’t want the volume information at all. 

 

Customer Service says they do not have an automated way to convert our information and did not answer when I asked if their offer to copy-and-paste included moving date information. 

 

So I am looking for a way to more easily convert MFHD into different date formats without setting the whole department to cutting and pasting, line-by-line.  Has anyone else worked through this problem successfully?

 

Thank you .

 

Christina Torbert

Head of Serials and

Bibliographer for Philosophy and Religion

J.D. Williams Library

University of Mississippi

662-915-7059

662-915-6744 fax

ctorbert@olemiss.edu