From amonmail at gmail.com  Sun Sep  5 16:30:06 2010
From: amonmail at gmail.com (Putr)
Date: Sun, 5 Sep 2010 22:30:06 +0200
Subject: [Alexandria-list] Importing data
Message-ID: <AANLkTimTnDqJ5G8VM_MZJdmmpoFqO6FdR=np3V=+Xujm@mail.gmail.com>

Hi!

I've just discovered Alexandria and i think it's awsome. But my problem is i
have all my books listed in an .xls file with this data: Author, title,
date, location

I whan't to transfer all this data to alexandria but i have not found any
solution online. I'm a php programer so some coding would not be a problem.
I'm just interested would it be posible to parse the .xls file and add the
books by title into alexandria.

Thanks for everything!

Putr
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From cathal.alexandria at gnostai.org  Sun Sep  5 19:07:38 2010
From: cathal.alexandria at gnostai.org (Cathal Mc Ginley)
Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2010 00:07:38 +0100
Subject: [Alexandria-list] Importing data
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On Sun, 5 Sep 2010 22:30:06 +0200
Putr <amonmail at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm just interested would it be posible to parse the .xls
> file and add the books by title into alexandria.

Use OpenOffice.org or similar to export into CSV format. You should
mimic the layout of the Goodreads or LibraryThing CSV export, and then
use "Import ... *.csv" in Alexandria. The CSV import in Alexandria
decides which layout to use based on the column headers.

The Goodreads CSV file uses these column headers:

"Title"
"Author"
"Additional Authors"
"ISBN" 
"Publisher"
"Year Published"
"Binding"

  ... and optionally ...

"Private Notes"
"My Rating"
"Read Count"

The LibraryThing CSV file uses these column headers:

"'TITLE'"
"'AUTHOR (first, last'"
"'ISBN'"
"'PUBLICATION INFO'"
"'DATE'"

  ... and optionally ...

"'COMMENTS'"
"'RATING'"
"'TAGS'"

Hope this helps,

   -   Cathal.
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From cathal.alexandria at gnostai.org  Mon Sep  6 01:34:53 2010
From: cathal.alexandria at gnostai.org (Cathal Mc Ginley)
Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2010 06:34:53 +0100
Subject: [Alexandria-list] Importing data
In-Reply-To: <20100906000738.36852643@jadzia>
References: <AANLkTimTnDqJ5G8VM_MZJdmmpoFqO6FdR=np3V=+Xujm@mail.gmail.com>
	<20100906000738.36852643@jadzia>
Message-ID: <20100906063453.434d4a02@jadzia>

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On Mon, 6 Sep 2010 00:07:38 +0100
Cathal Mc Ginley <cathal.alexandria at gnostai.org> wrote:

> "'AUTHOR (first, last'"

This should be:

"'AUTHOR (first, last)'"

The header should be everything inside the double-quotes, i.e. for
LibraryThing it should literally include the single quotes.

   -   C.
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