Paul POULAIN wrote:
Ed Veal a écrit :
So my question is how do I convince the IT department of this? I can't seem to get it through to them that this is not just any old SQL database.
Say them something like : "so, we will build a marc21 record, with a nice leader, some authorities links, the requested coded fields. Don't forget we will also have to build iso2709 records, embeeding items in 952 or 942 field. Subfields a to z will have to be filled".
They will look at you and think "hey, it's a martian..."
You : "you don't understand what I mean ? i'm not surprised. The good news is that LL would know... It totally counter productive to learn all that stuff for just 1 migration"
In fact, it's true : it IS counter productive to learn how to play[1] with MARC if it's just one shot !
[1] play is not the best term here... as it's more a nightmare than a game when you start ;-)
The game is Jumnji <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jumanji> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jumanji_(film)> except for the days when it is Zathura. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zathura> :-D gvb