http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=6891 Bug #: 6891 Summary: LDIF interoperability - a proposal Classification: Unclassified Change sponsored?: --- Product: Koha Version: unspecified Platform: All OS/Version: All Status: NEW Severity: enhancement Priority: P5 Component: Tools AssignedTo: gmcharlt@gmail.com ReportedBy: xan@biblionix.com QAContact: koha-bugs@lists.koha-community.org Hello Koha Community, I'm Xan Charbonnet with Biblionix. We're a small company that provides a hosted ILS, Apollo, to small and medium-sized public libraries in the US. We're not open-source, but we do strongly believe in open interchange: library data belongs to libraries, and shouldn't be used as a hostage to keep libraries chained to their automation systems. Far too many systems do treat their customers this way. There are even Koha consortia which are charging their librarians multi-thousand dollar extraction fees just to get their own data out! We've developed what we call LDIF (library data interchange format), which is a W3C XML Schema that defines a way for library data to be stored and exchanged in a vendor-independent manner. We believe this is an important capability which has been missing in the library world. Any Apollo library is able to generate an LDIF file at any time, and download (practically) everything that Apollo knows about their library in a single, well-defined file, complete with the schema. Ideally, that file would be easily importable into any other ILS. Part of making LDIF "real", of course, is engaging other ILS vendors. The Koha Community seemed like the place to start. Is there anyone working on the Koha project who would have an interest in developing support for this fledgling standard? And of course, in working with you, there will likely be changes to be made to LDIF, which will make it better for everyone. LDIF Schema: http://www.biblionix.com/ldif.xsd Example library export (I recommend that you download this rather than view it in your browser; it's a 4MB XML file): http://www.biblionix.com/demolibrary_2011-09-20.xml -- Configure bugmail: http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the QA Contact for the bug.