I agree with Paul, you need to show them that MARC is nuts and they don't want to try and migrate it themselves. --- Nicole C. Engard Open Source Evangelist, LibLime (888) Koha ILS (564-2457) ext. 714 nce@liblime.com AIM/Y!/Skype: nengard http://liblime.com http://blogs.liblime.com/open-sesame/ On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 12:32 PM, Jerry Van Baren <gerald.vanbaren@ge.com>wrote:
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)<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jumanji_%28film%29>
except for the days when it is Zathura. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zathura>
:-D
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