[Koha] MARC Records

[Tonnesen Steve]

Is anybody working on supporting Marc records at all?  I've written a
short perl script that will parse the data in a Marc records file, and
could probably write something up that would insert records into the Mysql
database, if work isn't being done on this already.

How are Marc records normally handled?  Is biblio data entered in only for
books that the library holds, or is an entire CD full of biblio data
loaded into the library database?  I'm thinking that a new table should be
added that will hold the entire Marc record for a bibliography, as the
Marc record will certainly contain more info than the Koha Mysql tables
currently will contain.  Storing the Marc records would mean that the
record itself could be parsed and displayed on the screen for each biblio
if more info was desired.

Steve Tonnesen.