Export Aleph patrons to tab-delimited file
Tags: aleph
, sql
, perl
, intermediate
Last Updated: May 31, 2010 05:27
- Description
A perl script which exports basic patron information from the Aleph database in to a tab-delimited text file for use by other processes, in particular authentication systems.
- Author: Matthew Robinson
- Institution: Curtin University of Technology
- Year: 2009
- License: GNU General Public License v3
- Short description: This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
- Link to terms: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt
- Skill required for using this code: intermediate
State
Stable
Programming language
perl, SQL
Software requirements
perl, Digest::SHA1
Author(s) homepage
Download
http://exlibrisgroup.org/download/attachments/26018799/alephusers2text.tar.gz
Changes
Version 1.0
This script has been in production in Curtin Library for several years without incident.
Installation instructions
Extract the contents of the tar file. Edit alephusers2text.pl and change the configuration settings at the top of the script, particularly the output filename and the Oracle database settings. Finally, add an entry to the crontab to run the script at regular intervals (daily etc).