[OPEN-ILS-DEV] a query

[Mike Rylander]

On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 8:58 AM, vijay kumar <vijcrjbhu at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear lists,
>
> I want to know which format the records are saved when we save it on
> our computer from Evergreen database ie, When we export our records
>
> Is it saved in the format of MARC UTF8, MARCXML ort MODS
>

Internally, records are stored as UTF-8 encoded MARCXML.  You can very
easily import MARCXML, obviously, as well as MARC8 or UTF-8 encoded
MARC21 binary records.  Importing MODS records would require a
MODS-to-MARC21Slim (MARCXML) conversion, which is not a lossless
transition, but it can be done.

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