[Koha-bugs] [Bug 6891] LDIF interoperability - a proposal

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--- Comment #6 from Robin Sheat <robin at catalyst.net.nz> 2011-09-21 21:10:41 UTC ---
* koha would need to be able to export authorities, but they're just MARC
records, so it'll be pretty simple.

* I'll have a look at how Koha does repeating holidays, I think it's for things
like christmas and so on, and here we have a few that are always on, say, the
25th of April (which sucks when that's a weekend and you don't get the day off
:) I think some libraries also include days they don't open, e.g. Sundays, in
there, but I'd have to check.

* When viewed from that point of view your holdingTypes thing makes sense.
Although, I'd be inclined to rename it as it's no longer just about
holdingTypes. holdingAttributes perhaps? Your point about these typically being
remapped is quite valid, it wouldn't be too bad to present a list of all these,
and have the person doing the import work out what fields they should be linked
up to. Also, it's a place to put things we haven't thought of, or that some
systems do and others don't.

* Ah, I don't think Koha tracks usage at a biblio level specifically (although
generating it from stats would be easy) so doing that didn't occur to me.

* My knowledge of how XML namespaces work falls down a bit here, but I wonder
if it's possible to include a namespace that would allow the file to validate
against both LDIF (therefore anything LDIF compatible will work just fine), but
if something knows how to handle another namespace, it can do that too. This
way anything that can't would be blind to the fact there's data it can't
understand there, but it'd still get the core stuff. It should be possible, I
need to get a bit further on my reading about such things to know for sure.

* Oh, sorta related to the above: it may be good to have a <system name="koha"
version="3.04.04" /> type entry so that things like the holding type mappings
can perhaps be worked out by default.

* I think that xAL.xsd would cover every eventuality we're likely to run into
:)

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