There is actually one use case where a lot of marc format records are exported frequently. My schools here often export their biblio's and holding's for upload to Follett's TitleWave service for collection analysis. This isn't a big deal, I'm sure I can teach my librarians to wait a little longer for their export. Just so you know. On Mon, 2008-11-24 at 12:23 -0500, Joe Atzberger wrote:
Given the rarity of dumping MARC data, and the preference for that being the authoritative data, I see no reason to retain the non-XML version. Dumps would take a lot more clock-time to reassemble the MARC machine-code lines, but such operations on more than a handful of records would be (1) rare and (2) on the command-line, where starting off a long job does not cause the appearance of "failure". Dumps of marcxml would be just as fast, of course.
--Joe
On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 11:52 AM, Ryan Higgins <ryan.higgins@liblime.com> wrote:
Yes, the marc column was excluded intentionally, since marcxml is authoritative. I don't really like keeping two copies in there, but if it's useful, we can keep it. As far as I know, Koha uses marcxml exclusively internally now, and the only reason to keep marc would be for faster dumps (though I'd rather dump the authoritative version of the data)
What do others think ?
Ryan