Re: [Koha-devel] a couple of new projects

[Pat Eyler]

On Wed, 28 Aug 2002, paul POULAIN wrote:

> >
> 1st, i think that i don't know what NCIP mean ;-)

NCIP is a interlibrary communications protocol that can be used for
interlibrary searches, handlind interlibrary loans, etc.  My understanding
is that it can also be used to drive 'self serve' check out systems like
the one from 3M (I could be wrong here).  A good place to go for an
overview of NCIP is:
   http://www.niso.org/committees/at_jan_02/index.htm
copies of the standard and an implmentation profile (longish pdf files)
can be had from:
   http://www.niso.org/committees/committee_at.html


>
> About full MARC support : i'm "ready to play with the ball", but what is
> the exact question ? what will be the MARC support ? what do we need to
> reach the MARC version, what could it costs ? let me know, and i'll will
> answer promptly.

I think the big questions are 'What do we need to do to reach the MARC
version?',  "What is the (general) plan for getting there?"  "What would
it cost?" is a question best left for the RFP responses.  I'm sure that
specifics about "How to get there" will be covered differently in
different repsonses as well.

Second to these (and this goes for all three of the projects) is 'How do
we integrate work for hire with the rest of Koha development?'.  E.g., my
hope would be that you and Steve would be the ones to bid on and win a
contract with Nelsonville to do work on the MARC project, but it's
possible that "Uncle Bob's Perl Farm" (UBPF) will come up with a
compelling bid.  You (Paul) will still be managing the 1.4 release series,
so we're going to need a way to ensure that UBPF's work meshes with your
vision and that 1.4 isn't thrown off track.

-pate

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