2 Jun
2004
2 Jun
'04
9:18 p.m.
On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 04:00:05PM -0400, Keller, Tim wrote:
The first big issue your going to have to tackle is getting the data out of the existing database. I highly doubt that this proprietary software will let you do something like export your whole catalog to a comma delimited file. If it can, then you'd be all set. However, it probably should allow you to run a report of all the volumes you've got in your library. Either way, you'll need to get your data into some sort of normalized form that you could use to populate your new database.
Luckily, libraries tend to have their own standard data formats, like MARC: http://www.loc.gov/marc/