Hi,
On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 12:32 PM, MJ Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The more people who know Koha, the better!
I fully agree - education is the key to the long term success of Koha
or any other open source library software. The more librarians and
library, municipal, and campus IT people w
"Ed Veal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [...] However, what has happened is that they seem to think
> that they have the expertise to do this on their own. I shudder at the
> thought. They have already set up a server and are wanting my advice and
> guidance in migrating data. My advice is to contr
I really think what Ed is asking is how can he get his management to pay for
Migration and support for this "Free" Opensource software
I have no doubt they are willing to use Koha, but IT people see it as a
database is a database just "upload your data"...
The key here is - ok when I have a
I agree with Paul, you need to show them that MARC is nuts and they don't
want to try and migrate it themselves.
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Paul POULAIN wrote:
> Ed Veal a écrit :
>> So my question is how do I convince the IT department of this? I can't
>> seem to get it through to them that this is not just any old SQL database.
>
> Say them something like : "so, we will build a marc21 record, with a
> nice leader, some authorities
I would start by pointing them at the MARC standard:
http://www.loc.gov/marc/ , and tell them to start there. If that
doesn't dissuade them then look up the z39.50 protocol, and tell them
that that is the next step. Then point them at IndexData's Zebra
engine, and that's the next step.
Then tell
Ed Veal a écrit :
> So my question is how do I convince the IT department of this? I can't
> seem to get it through to them that this is not just any old SQL database.
Say them something like : "so, we will build a marc21 record, with a
nice leader, some authorities links, the requested coded fi
I have an interesting situation here. We had LibLime come and give us a
presentation last week and I thought it would be best to invite the city
IT staff to take a look so that they could be onboard with any decision
that we make. However, what has happened is that they seem to think
that they hav
