[ale] Linux in libraries (a heads-up for June 2002)

Jeff Hubbs Jhubbs at niit.com
Wed Jul 18 09:47:38 EDT 2001


> True.  However, the MARC standard is one of the most basic 
> standards in the 
> library world, as well-established as the Dewey Decimal system.  Most 
> relational databases just can't do MARC without an awful lot 
> of munging.
> 
> Ben

Ben -

Can you explain why that is so?  Is it because the MARC data structure is
hierarchical? 

There was a DBMS in VMS-land, IIRC, that was good for hierarchical data
structures - I think it was Rdb.  I think that what ever it was was a
"network DBMS."  Please remember that I'm going back something like 13 years
to remember this...

- Jeff


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