There is actually one use case where a lot of marc format records are exported frequently.
My schools here often export their biblio's and holding's for upload to Follett's TitleWave service for collection analysis. This isn't a big deal, I'm sure I can teach my librarians to wait a little longer for their export. Just so you know. On Mon, 2008-11-24 at 12:23 -0500, Joe Atzberger wrote: > Given the rarity of dumping MARC data, and the preference for that > being the authoritative data, I see no reason to retain the non-XML > version. Dumps would take a lot more clock-time to reassemble the > MARC machine-code lines, but such operations on more than a handful of > records would be (1) rare and (2) on the command-line, where starting > off a long job does not cause the appearance of "failure". Dumps of > marcxml would be just as fast, of course. > > --Joe > > On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 11:52 AM, Ryan Higgins > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Yes, the marc column was excluded intentionally, since marcxml > is authoritative. > I don't really like keeping two copies in there, but if it's > useful, we can keep it. > As far as I know, Koha uses marcxml exclusively internally > now, and the only > reason to keep marc would be for faster dumps (though I'd > rather dump the > authoritative version of the data) > > What do others think ? > > Ryan > > _______________________________________________ Koha-devel mailing list Koha-devel@lists.koha.org http://lists.koha.org/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel
