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Re: [Koha-devel] Catalogue API (fwd)
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Tonnesen Steve |
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Re: [Koha-devel] Catalogue API (fwd) |
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Wed May 22 08:55:01 2002 |
On Tue, 21 May 2002, Alan Millar wrote:
> My suggestion: what about using the existing structure of the KohaDB
> (perhaps with minor mods) for these search index tables? Code
> transition would happen by first isolating all the writes to the
> existing tables and making them go through API's. Then any existing
> code that is just reading the data wouldn't have to change.
Of course, if we have such an API, there is no longer any need to maintain
two backend databases. :) This API is in the works, and will be an
integral part of MARC development.
> It seems to me
> that the other (original?) Marc representation can be considered yet a
> third format. I'm thinking of ones I see where the tag number is at the
> beginning of each line and the $ character separates the subfields. I'm
> presuming that this is what Marc-familiar librarians work on, and then
> it is translated to be stored in the control-character file format (or
> something else like the database we are discussing).
What you are talking about is just a universal format for displaying marc
records to an end user (usually a librarian). It is never used for
storing marc records, as far as I now.
Steve.