On 2012-04-10, at 5:11 PM, Robin Sheat wrote:
Mason James schreef op di 10-04-2012 om 17:09 [+1200]:
woooh, turbomarc looks pretty cool! but, it looks like zebra does not support turbomarc, (just yet)
i think any turbomarc benchmarking for Koha is moot, until zebra supports turbomarc
Well, the rebuild_zebra script could convert it on the fly if it needed to.
ah, ok... so we could possibly use the turbomarc format internally within koha, and just transform it to marcxml for writing out to zebra, when needed sounds do-able :) i guess we would need to patch MARC::File::XML, to correctly parse a turbomarc record? fyi: according to this url, turbomarc parsing is 4-5 times faster that marcxml. so its definitely something to have a look at :) http://www.indexdata.com/blog/2010/05/turbomarc-faster-xml-marc-records just curious, is it worth switching back to the plain old MARC format internally for Koha, for an extra speed increase? i cant remember what the advantage was in moving to marcxml? (other than marcxml being easier to read, for a human)