Re: [Koha-devel] generic Koha data export format?

2010-06-02 Thread Michael Hafen
There are a few possibilities I see here. One is to create an export tool. Some MARC format would be good for the biblio and copy information, but there would have to be some framework, similar to that which is in the works for imports, to map koha fields to MARC fields. The system prefered MARC

Re: [Koha-devel] generic Koha data export format?

2010-06-02 Thread MJ Ray
Marc Chantreux marc.chantr...@biblibre.com On Wed, Jun 02, 2010 at 12:18:50PM +1000, Rick Welykochy wrote: 1. CSV, directly importable into spreadsheet and database programmes 2. XML, easily handled by MySQL, more transparent than CSV I would choose YAML because - it can store tree (as

[Koha-devel] generic Koha data export format?

2010-06-01 Thread Reed Wade
Maybe this is already solved but-- It seems like it would be fun if there was a nicely generic format defined for Koha data dumps. Is it correct that right now this is a DB specific task? I'm thinking some format that would be good for-- - working across different versions of Koha (within