Thursday, April 22, 2004 15:25 CDT Salut Philippe, A quick response to the first question from your list:
1- I am not a specialist about MARC21 but i thought that UNIMARC was intended for use as an exchange format ?
Actually, the *original* MARC format was USMARC. Without everyone going jingoistic, that's just a fact. By the 1990s, there were a variety of nationalised-MARC systems in the world (USMARC, CANMARC, Australian MARC, UKMARC, etc., etc., as we have had proof of even on this listserv when at various times people have written in asking if Danish MARC or Chinese MARC, etc. would be compatible with/represented in Koha). UNIMARC made great claims to being an international standard but was and is essentially Eurocentric, all apologies to IFLA. When you look at the MASSIVE amount of support documentation generated by the Library of Congress and the mind-boggling amount of work done by various governmental and private companies around MARC21 standards, you come to realise pretty quickly that there is a reason it is becoming the de facto global standard. All that aside, yes, UNIMARC was and is intended as an information exchange format (as is MARC21), and it is comprehended by Koha. From what Paul has written before, you need to *decide the MARC variety you are going to use.*
2- I confirm that all datas from the biblio and bibliotitem tables are not exported (in test with my personal datas at least) . As i said in my previous message, datas like additional authors, subject, subtitle, date, etc. are not.
Could you tell us which version of Koha you are using? That usually helps the developpers identify where glitches are coming from and how they can be fixed. And MJR has asked for a list of what is not being exported. In terms of the MARC coding, I may be able to help. Could you send me a test sample of the MARC records you are able to export off the listserv? I can examine them and see if something is happening to the MARC record's registry, inadvertent damage to which can cause lost data.
3- Answer to Rachel (see below) : First thing should be to export the entire catalogue but additional datas from the borowers would certainly be nice.
While there have been problems for others in exporting data from Koha and importing data into Koha, overall Koha seems to work for most people. Someone will be able to figure out what is glitching. Soyez patient. MJR has already asked that you send a list of what is missing so they can test and report it properly as a glitch. And Rachel is one of the big-picture people involved with Koha, so it is understandable that she took your question on exporting patron data to that level. Take that as a compliment. Amitiés, Steven F. Baljkas library tech at large -- bibliotechnicien Koha neophyte Winnipeg (Manitoba) Canada
On 2004-04-21 12:37:09 +0100 Philippe Revault <ph.revault@free.fr> wrote:
1- Is the export format in MARC or in UNIMARC ?
More likely to be MARC21, as far as I understand the code, but I could be wrong.
2 - Which datas are exported ?
It should be possible to export all. If you are sure things are missing, let us know, I'll test and make sure it gets recorded.
Rachel Hamilton-Williams a e'crit :
If you're exporting data I assume that the MARC export only does the catalogue records - so it doesn't do - Borrowers/patron records - Finacial records? - Reserves
Do you think it would be a good idea to have a method for exporting this data as well?
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