I agree with Paul, you need to show them that MARC is nuts and they don't want to try and migrate it themselves.
--- Nicole C. Engard Open Source Evangelist, LibLime (888) Koha ILS (564-2457) ext. 714 [EMAIL PROTECTED] AIM/Y!/Skype: nengard http://liblime.com http://blogs.liblime.com/open-sesame/ On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 12:32 PM, Jerry Van Baren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>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 > _______________________________________________ > Koha-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.koha.org/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel >
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