Chris Cormack a écrit :
Hmmm
It sounds like storing the holdings info in zebra is going to be a no go.
I still think that storing information that changes regularly, like issue status, and other holdings info should be stored in something like a rdbms
Would storing the holdings info in mysql (or other rdbms) be a bad thing?
Storing everything in zebra will let user see the document status from z3950 server directly. The no-go is probably why no z3950 server does this : it's too much time consuming. another reason for holding in a separate DB is to have a complete MARC record for holdings. Holdings for UNIMARC exists, even if all the libraries I know uses "recommandation 995" that store holding in 995 field. -- Paul POULAIN et Henri Damien LAURENT Consultants indépendants en logiciels libres et bibliothéconomie (http://www.koha-fr.org) Tel : 04 91 31 45 19