[Koha] marc VS marcxml field in koha's biblioitems table

[Paul Poulain]

Le 18/06/2015 16:32, Galen Charlton a écrit :
> Hi,
>
> On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 10:20 AM, Andreas Roussos <arouss1980 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> My question is: do I also need to edit the contents of the 'marc' field?
>> According to the man page of C4::Biblio (
>> http://perldoc.koha-community.org/C4/Biblio.html): "In the 3.0 version of
>> Koha, the authoritative record-level information is in
>> biblioitems.marcxml". So, it looks like I should be OK with editing the
>> marcxml data only, but wanted to double-check with someone from this
>> mailing list who knows more about koha than I do.
> It is possible for rebuild_zebra.pl to be run in a mode where it uses
> the marc column rather than the marcxml column when indexing bibs, so
> to avoid the possibility of discrepancies in indexing, you should
> update the marc column after making changes to the MARCXML.
Outside from this reason, I think the biblioitems.marc field 
can/could/should be removed.

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