RE: Database language

["Zhou, Don" <dzhou at wmitchell dot edu>]

Has anybody ever thought about exporting the new data you cataloged each
day and then importing it into mysql? Then you can have your own search
interface. 


Don


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Subject: RE: Database language


> 1)  an sql-compliant backend would be far more accessible for direct 
> querying by those of us who would like to link-to or build interfaces
to 
> local data outside the ILS;

Or to restate that....you could build your own web interface to the
catalog,
and do pretty much whatever you want. Building screens just to search
the
catalog
could probably be done super-easily. Doing things that interface with
circ,
placing holds for example, you'd need more of a documented API (that is,
you'd 
have to know more about the internals of the system and how the bits of
it
work together...) My sense is that for smaller, local customizations it
would
be a godsend. Rebuilding the whole web opac from the ground up with all
its
functionality might not be worth it.

> 2)  an sql-compliant backend would be a far more flexible means of 
> extracting reporting data from my ILS than the present black box, aka 
> 'create lists';

Absolutely. Positively. Definitely.

--Charles Gimon
  Web Coordinator
  Minneapolis Public Library
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