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

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http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=6891

--- Comment #13 from Xan Charbonnet <xan at biblionix.com> ---
LDIF has continued to improve, and has proven its usefulness.  We have written
a number of converters which take uploaded data from other systems and convert
it to LDIF, so that we only need to maintain one importer.  Taking this step
has made it possible to improve our importer in ways which would not have been
practical with the one-importer-per-system method.

If LDIF is this useful when only one side of the equation deals with it,
imagine how useful it will be when multiple library systems can import and
export it.

This is the right thing to do.  Libraries need to be able to get their data out
of any system in a standardized way.  I believe this is far more important than
the development methodology used for any particular system.  If your goal is
truly ILS openness and vendor independence, let's work together and make LDIF
interoperability a reality!



Back in May we got to version 017, with the following changes:

Changes from version 016:
* Copy and volume fields added for holdings
* Call suffix for holdings added
* Added regular expressions for the ILS to map call numbers to material types
* Reserve "placed" and "resolved" now dateTime instead of date
* Added "latest activity" attribute for patrons

Changes from version 015:
* holidays element no longer requires at least one date

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