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

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--- Comment #25 from Xan Charbonnet <xan at biblionix.com> ---
Hello Koha Community,

I'd like to resurrect this discussion, if possible.  Since we last spoke, LDIF
has gone through a number of revisions (you can see the latest .xsd, including
the changelog, here: https://www.biblionix.com/ldif/ldif.xsd

(We haven't yet come up with a better name than LDIF, to resolve the conflict
with the LDAP standard.  Certainly open for ideas on that.)

And we now have a script that reads directly from a Koha database and outputs
LDIF.  That script is available here:
https://www.biblionix.com/ldif/koha_to_ldif.pl.txt

It would be really exciting if you would consider integrating an LDIF
extraction feature into Koha, perhaps based on this script.  I don't know
whether such a feature would ultimately be better as part of the UI or as a
command-line script, but figured that this script would be a good starting
point.  I'm sure there are many things that Koha experts would do differently,
and there's probably a place or two where things are US-centric (processing
states in addresses, most prominently), but if you have any interest in
adapting this for inclusion in Koha, then we'd be glad to make any changes that
would be appropriate, including of course relicensing it under GPL3.

Let me know if there's anything I can clarify or do to make this a more
worthwhile feature.

Thanks!

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