Mike Hafen a écrit :
Funny you should mention this now. I was just thinking about removing MARC from Koha and dropping in DC. Switching to all XML is a much better idea.
The reason I was thinking about this is because some people I work with want to use Koha for Asset Management and Inventory. I have a few librarians already doing it along side the library holdings. My thought was that DC would handle equipment better than MARC.
So now I'm thinking of just dropping the binary marc column, and instead of frameworks have record formats for MARC, DC, etc. I'd also have to use NoZebra. I don't know if I could get zebra to index different formats like that. The structure to support non MARC is at early stage, but is here since 2.0
Having datas twice (biblio & items and marcxml row), with the help of TransformMarcToKoha should be very helpfull. Dirty hack : - modify TransformMarcToKoha to deal with DC (or whatever you want) (and some other subs inside C4/Biblio.pm and C4/Items.pm) - rewrite MARC editor display DC (big job...) - do the XSLT to display the MARC record - update zebra config file to index DC That should be enough... All other things (circ,...) should work like a charm without any changes. Of course, that's the theory. And you know that "theory and practise are the same... in theory" -- Paul POULAIN http://www.biblibre.com Expert en Logiciels Libres pour l'info-doc Tel : (33) 4 91 81 35 08