[Koha-devel] RFC: Koha : Merge biblio & biblioitems tables

[Michael Hafen]

There is actually one use case where a lot of marc format records are
exported frequently.

My schools here often export their biblio's and holding's for upload to
Follett's TitleWave service for collection analysis.

This isn't a big deal, I'm sure I can teach my librarians to wait a
little longer for their export.  Just so you know.

On Mon, 2008-11-24 at 12:23 -0500, Joe Atzberger wrote:
> Given the rarity of dumping MARC data, and the preference for that
> being the authoritative data, I see no reason to retain the non-XML
> version.  Dumps would take a lot more clock-time to reassemble the
> MARC machine-code lines, but such operations on more than a handful of
> records would be (1) rare and (2) on the command-line, where starting
> off a long job does not cause the appearance of "failure".  Dumps of
> marcxml would be just as fast, of course.
> 
> --Joe
> 
> On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 11:52 AM, Ryan Higgins
> <ryan.higgins at liblime.com> wrote:
>         
>         Yes, the marc column was excluded intentionally, since marcxml
>         is authoritative.
>         I don't really like keeping two copies in there, but if it's
>         useful, we can keep it.
>         As far as I know, Koha uses marcxml exclusively internally
>         now, and the only
>         reason to keep marc would be for faster dumps (though I'd
>         rather dump the 
>         authoritative version of the data)
>         
>         What do others think ?
>         
>         Ryan
>         
>