> The MARC issue seems a lot more relevant than the issue of 'proprietary
> and outdated' software? Our ILS uses an Oracle db to store the
> information, and can provide an xml interface to the data - surely it's
> the data formats that are the issue here. Although the data is 'held' in
> the system - to a large extent the system does a lot of work to extract
> the relevant information from the MARC records (which we've insisted on)
>
> Owen
>
> Owen Stephens
> E-Strategy Co-ordinator
Yes, I almost didn't add a comment about our software, though that comes
into play. It interested me that the RDA-DC agreement that Karen Coyle
wrote about went unmentioned because de-MARCing MARC seems to be pivotal
to serious change.
K.G. Schneider
kgs_at_bluehighways.com
Received on Thu May 10 2007 - 08:28:24 EDT