[Koha-devel] Convincing City IT Dept.

[Nicole Engard]

I agree with Paul, you need to show them that MARC is nuts and they don't
want to try and migrate it themselves.


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Nicole C. Engard
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On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 12:32 PM, Jerry Van Baren <gerald.vanbaren at ge.com>wrote:

> 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)<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jumanji_%28film%29>
> >
> except for the days when it is Zathura.
>   <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zathura>
>
> :-D
>
> gvb
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