[Koha-zebra] Re: [Koha-devel] playing with the zebra on cvs head

[Mike Taylor]

> Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2005 11:51:17 +0000
> From: Mike Rylander <mrylander at gmail.com>
> 
> The only assumption I'm comfortable making right now is that, as
> Thomas suggested, you would preprocess all the records to give them
> a local use field that would store simplified versions of this
> information.

Not necessary -- Zebra itself can run the necessary logic to extract
the information you want at indexing time.  Indeed, it really should
be that you can just throw vanilla MARC records at it, and let the
magic happen.

> Mike (Taylor), I know you're a busy man ;), but I would appreciate
> any details you could give on this matter whenever you /do/ have
> time, mostly to satisfy my own curiosity. TIA :)

Sorry, you'll get better information out of Seb or Adam than from me:
they are the Zebra wizards.  I am a mere acolyte :-)

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