Wednesday, April 21, 2004 20:43 CDT Greetings, all! Just a few quick observations re: your comments, Rachel. There are ILS that do export borrower data, although I kinda doubt that their users intend for them to do so. Ex. 1. When I was trying to help out Doc a few months ago, the samples he sent me included the name and patron barcode of the last student borrower of a book (overdue, tsk, tsk) embedded in an 852 tag. Ex. 2. At my second-last cataloguing gig, my supervisor and I both noticed that records we downloaded from the University of California's MELVYL system (sorry, I don't know which ILS it really is, or if that name is in fact for a proprietary in-house ILS) encoded such data in 94x fields IIRC (it was definitely 9xx). Now, I don't know how the privacy laws are shaping up in New Zealand, but I know there would be legal issues in Canada, especially if an academic or public library accidentally shared data in the way that Doc's or the U of California's systems (accidentally) did. In fact, the issue would be one of actionable breach of various privacy acts, something most library administrators would wisely want to avoid. It might be useful, though, if that data could be transferred over for migration purposes but remained visible ONLY for inside use. Again, being ignorant of programming complexities, I don't know if it is practical to do such a thing, or even possible. You would need to have some form of filter that would strip out such information before sharing cataloguing but that would allow access to that same information to authorised internal administrators/staff. Anyway, just a few thoughts. The 9xx fields would remain available in MARC21 should you wish to include such data, as they are designated for system-specific features. Cheers, Steven F. Baljkas library tech at large Koha neophyte Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
From: "Rachel Hamilton-Williams" <rachel@katipo.co.nz> Date: 2004/04/21 Wed PM 09:20:19 CDT To: koha@lists.katipo.co.nz Subject: Re: [Koha] Export MARC from Koha
Hi
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.
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?
Cheers Rachel
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There are ILS that do export borrower data, although I kinda doubt that their users intend for them to do so.
Ahh that does sound bad - I had assumed it was to take data from one ILS to another, not accidentally getting them with a "cross catalogue" function or what have you.
Now, I don't know how the privacy laws are shaping up in New Zealand, but I know there would be legal issues in Canada, especially if an academic or public library accidentally shared data in the way that Doc's or the U of California's systems (accidentally) did. In fact, the issue would be one of actionable breach of various privacy acts, something most library administrators would wisely want to avoid.
Yup same here
It might be useful, though, if that data could be transferred over for migration purposes but remained visible ONLY for inside use.
Yes definitly - I wasn't thinking it would go *in* the MARC stuff, that just sounds scarey Cheers Rachel _____________________________________________________________ Rachel Hamilton-Williams Katipo Communications WEBMISTRESS ph 021 389 128 or +64 04 934 1285 mailto:rachel@katipo.co.nz PO Box 12487, Wellington http://www.katipo.co.nz New Zealand Koha Open Source Library System http://www.koha.org
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