I don't know of any standards for patron information storage in the LIS community. There is the MARC format for Community Information that can be used for personal contact info, but that would be overkill. GILS is another metadata standard that can hold contact info, but once again too much. In the wider community X500 and LDAP are both common and useful. vCard is another well supported standard. Using LDAP it might make it possible for systems in a consortium to share info for a reciprocal borrowing program, or to issue students cards based on records in the registrar's office. There are privacy issues but there are interesting possibilities if we adopt a standard other systems may be using. Sincerely, David Bigwood bigwood@lpi.usra.edu Lunar & Planetary Institute http://www.lpi.usra.edu/library/whats_new.shtml Cataloging News http://www.catalogablog.blogspot.com -----Original Message----- From: koha-admin@lists.katipo.co.nz [mailto:koha-admin@lists.katipo.co.nz]On Behalf Of MJ Ray Sent: Friday, April 23, 2004 10:39 AM To: koha@lists.katipo.co.nz Subject: Re: [Koha] Export MARC from Koha On 2004-04-22 21:19:19 +0100 Steven F. Baljkas <baljkas@mb.sympatico.ca> wrote:
Just so no one feels confused, there really aren't any MARC21 standards for patron information as such.
I was wondering more whether any of the "learner description" or people information file formats would be useful/interesting to koha users/owners.
I don't know what is meant exactly by 'financial records' but I am assuming that that is a euphemism for fines. Same as paragraph above.
I doubt that these can be exported in a useful way, but I could be wrong. Adding the ability to trigger code on fines to notify another accounting system may be interesting to someone. -- MJR/slef My Opinion Only and possibly not of any group I know. Please http://remember.to/edit_messages on lists to be sure I read http://mjr.towers.org.uk/ gopher://g.towers.org.uk/ slef@jabber.at Creative copyleft computing services via http://www.ttllp.co.uk/ _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha