[Koha-devel] Convincing City IT Dept.

[Jerry Van Baren]

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)>
except for the days when it is Zathura.
   <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zathura>

:-D

gvb