[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Converting full set of DB/TextWorks fields intoEvergreen

[Duimovich, George]

Hello Russell,

Ah, DB/TextWorks -- nice thing about DBT (and similar special library
toolboxes) is that they allow users to go beyond MARC and offer quick to
develop, usuable interfaces for the "Jack/Jane of all trades" special
librarian.  The bad thing about DBT is that if you ever want to re-enter
the legacy world of MARC21, you've got to re-map your way back into the
sacred data chamber known as MARC21...

Some koha folks seemed to have migrated from DBT to MARC here:
http://kohakenya.wordpress.com/migration/

George
NRCan Library

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Russell McOrmond
Sent: October 31, 2011 09:32
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Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Converting full set of DB/TextWorks fields
intoEvergreen


   I will soon be acquiring/authoring/etc a tool to convert all fields
from a series of DB/TextWorks managed databases into Evergreen.  Before
I do that I am wondering if anyone else has already done something like
this, and can share ideas on what was done.

   For each DB/TextWorks database field in each database I will be
creating a mapping to an existing or custom Evergreen field.  While I
recognize that our set of fields will be unique, I suspect there are
tools out there that provide good infrastructure for doing this type of
thing.

Thanks.

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