[Koha] Re: [Koha-devel] 1.3.x roadmap

[paul POULAIN]

baljkas at mb.sympatico.ca a écrit:

>Monday, December 2, 2002    22:35 CST
>Paul, etal.
>
Hi Steven,

>Regarding the planned/hopeful addition to Koha of what we in the library
>world might call a MARC editor (the ability to view bibliographic and
>authority records in MARC tagged format and add/modify records in MARC
>tagged format), I was wondering if anybody took a look at the free MARC
>editor available from Terry Reese from Oregon State U (via URL
><http://www.onid.orst.edu/~reeset/marcedit/html/>) listed on the LC page on
>MARC records, Systems, and Tools (URL
><http://lcweb.loc.gov/marc/marctools.html>) as a prototype?
>
No, we didn't knew this project.

>Since I am a complete neophyte, please excuse if this has already been done
>and rejected, or is impracticable because of its base in MS COM arch. Reese
>does claim that users can "access the functionality of the MarcEngine
>through numerous scripting or programming languages ..." At the very least,
>it is a handy free editor.
>
However, it's impracticable :
* limited platform (only M$, and i haven't ms-win !!!)
* free, but not free software. Not even open-source software

>Anyway, I hope this may help. There are a number of other useful tools
>available on the LC page that Koha users might want to be aware of. I've
>visited the page fairly regularly over 5 years now: it is fairly stable and
>continues to grow.
>
>Bon courage!
>
thx, maybe it may be usefull for someone else. Don't hesitate to tell us 
here if you discover something interesting.

For koha, we used the great MARC::Record perl package. It includes 
almost everything needed for us (but it's only a programmer tool)

-- 
Paul POULAIN
Consultant indépendant en logiciels libres
responsable francophone de koha (SIBGB libre http://fr.koha.org)