[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Anyone planning a full Bib + MFHD Export tool ?

[Repke de Vries]

Apologies for re-posting my 9 november message to this list !  Only  
change is the subject header.

Related question::

1) if  records were once Imported [1] as bibliographic  records with  
separate MFHD records,  would the export be bib records + separate  
MFHD records again with record linking according to MARC  ?

In other words and to avoid "data lock-in":  if you migrate to  
Evergreen and at some point need to do another migration, you can  
export  and have the data you had + all the changes -- also changes  
made with the E 1.6  MFHD editor ?

(I recently learned you can do RSS feeds based on both your  
bibliographic and MFHD data but  I mean a full Export to, say, MARC21  
binary that brings out your bib + MFHD combinations again)

2) is anyone planning  on an Exporting tool - Vandelay cannot handle  
MFHD and there seem to be no command-line scripts [2]

Thanks, Repke, IISH

[1] http://svn.open-ils.org/trac/ILS/browser/trunk/Open-ILS/tests/ 
datasets/README
[2] like there is for Import: http://svn.open-ils.org/trac/ILS/ 
browser/trunk/Open-ILS/src/extras/import

Op 8-nov-2009, om 16:28 heeft Mike Rylander het volgende geschreven:

> 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.
>
> -- 
> Mike Rylander
>  | VP, Research and Design
>  | Equinox Software, Inc. / The Evergreen Experts
>  | phone:  1-877-OPEN-ILS (673-6457)
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