On 10/22/07, Larry Stamm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>>>> Brandon W Uhlman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Hi, Larry. :) Your friendly neighbourhood British Columbia > > Evergreen sysadmin here. :) > > Hi Brandon, > > Big neighbourhood! Are you going to be the technical point man for > the BC Pines implementation? > > > - The patron data in an Athena system is trivially exportable in > > dBase format. I'm not sure whether the same functionality exists > > for transactional and hold data, or for item-level > > data. Bibliographic data in MARC format is MARC data, and that's > > fine as it is. > > All the circulation data in Athena is held in various dBase files that > can be accessed independently of the Athena interface. I guess my > real question was: are those dBase filenames hard-coded into Athena or > will they change with each library's implementation of Athena? > Sagebrush's support team has refused to answer that question, claiming > that it is their "intellectual property". :( > > I can always just go visit another library to see for myself. > > > - The database schema, mostly up-to-date, is available on the > > dokuwiki at > > http://open-ils.org/documentation/evergreen_1.1.3_erd.html. >
Hey! That's my IP!! ;) > Thanks, that helps a lot. Will that structure stay more-or-less the > same as features, such as acquisitions, are added to OpenILS? > They will, for the most part. I will put up a 1.2.0 ERD soon and announce it here. > > - The Django piece is used to tickle some of the back-end > > settings like circ policies, what Evergreen calls org units > > (branches, library systems, etc.), and the like. If you've not > > used Djano before, it's worth a look at > > http://www.djangoproject.com/. Pretty whiz-bang stuff. > > Cool! This will replace the perl cgi scripts for basic configuration, > and then some? > Yes. And we're looking for pythonistas to work on that as well. (hint-hint) :) > If I have questions about the BC Pines implementation, is it > appropriate to ask them here, or should I take it to the Northern > Pines list? > I'll mostly defer to Brandon/BCPines on that, but I will say that we'd appreciate anything you feel is appropriate to send here. -- Mike Rylander | VP, Research and Design | Equinox Software, Inc. / The Evergreen Experts | phone: 1-877-OPEN-ILS (673-6457) | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | web: http://www.esilibrary.com
