NBLUG Library ?

[Ron Wickersham]

hi Dan,

this is not something i understand very well, but the problem shows up in
the structure and rules for the MARC records, which fit multi-valued
database model (like pick).
 
a search in the koha archives didn't yield the pages i read, but i did
find this link that sounds similar to the issues raised on the koha list:
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/XML4Lib/archive/0112/0010.html

the current release of koha (1.2) can inport MARC records but splats the
fields out into a small subset of the full MARC potential.   a branch for 
release next year (1.4) will have MARC tags as the internal form and so 
far the development has gone to getting the records in and out.

-ron


On Thu, 24 Oct 2002 hanksdc at plug.org wrote:

> Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 13:35:30 -0600 (MDT)
> From: hanksdc at plug.org
> Reply-To: talk at nblug.org
> To: talk at nblug.org
> Subject: Re: NBLUG Library ?
> 
> On Thu, 24 Oct 2002, Ron Wickersham wrote:
> > 3). the data is stored in a RDBMS. (although there has been discussion on
> >     the Koha lists to consider other data-base systems - the relational
> >     model is not a close fit to library data).  the current stable release
> 
> Can you clarify that statement--that 'the relational model is not a close
> fit to library data'? I find that somewhat hard to believe. Or perhaps you
> could point me to the list archives where this was discussed?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -- Dan Hanks
> 
>