[Koha] Export MARC from Koha

[Bigwood, David]

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
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Subject: Re: [Koha] Export MARC from Koha


On 2004-04-22 21:19:19 +0100 Steven F. Baljkas 
<baljkas at 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.

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