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<BR>Date: 5/26/01 10:29:09 PM US Mountain Standard Time
<BR>From: <A HREF="mailto:COURYHOUSE">COURYHOUSE</A>
<BR>To: <A HREF="mailto:chris@katipo.co.nz">chris@katipo.co.nz</A>
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<BR>You may want to check or perhaps others here can enlighten us as to haw
<BR>this is handled by some of the commercial packages....
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<BR>UPDATE!!! the 733 MHz machine was purchased today and windows will be
<BR>stripped from the drive and LINUX installed!
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<BR>will be using the caldera LINUX 2.4 edesk
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<BR>Any comments? Can always change....
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<BR>Ed Sharpe
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<BR><BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">Subj: <B>Re: FW: [Koha] Re: marc and stuff!</B>
<BR>Date: 5/25/01 2:54:18 PM US Mountain Standard Time
<BR><I>From: chris@katipo.co.nz (Chris Cormack)
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<BR>On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 05:16:06PM -0400, COURYHOUSE@aol.com said:
<BR>> preference would of course be to also store them in MARC as well but
<BR>one
<BR>> thing at a time!
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<BR>> ed
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<BR>Hi Ed
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<BR>Forgive me if im wrong, and please correct me if I am, but Im not sure why
<BR>its
<BR>nessecary to store things in MARC. A MARC file AFAIK is just a sequential
<BR>file that follows a set format.
<BR>Having the format set allows the file to be transferred between systems
<BR>that
<BR>understand that format.
<BR>I dont see why it is nessecary to store the data as a sequential file, if
<BR>you have some easy routines that can a) easily parse said file and store it
<BR>in our database and b) can retrieve information from our database and
<BR>create
<BR>a MARC record from it.
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<BR>>From what I gather the main things the Library of Congress looks for when
<BR>assesing MARC 21 compatibility is that the system loads in the full record
<BR>with no false or arbitritary limitations on such thing as the length of the
<BR>notes field, or the number of subject headings. And that the system allows
<BR>for the records to be written back in MARC 21 communications format.
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<BR>Of course it may well work out, that these two aims are very hard to
<BR>achieve
<BR>without storing them in MARC format, then again it may not.
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<BR>Just thinking aloud really
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<BR>Chris
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<BR>Chris Cormack
<BR>Programmer
<BR>025 500 789 Katipo Communications
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<BR>chris@katipo.co.nz
<BR>www.katipo.co.nz
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