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On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 7:28 AM, Wayne Lam <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Any people have experience in exporting bib data in Innovative Interface > to sort of XML db? How is it going to be done actually? > and What could be the best way of doing this? > What's the use case you have in mind? Also, when say bib data, does that mean item data is not needed? IMO, the easiest way to get bib data out of III is just doing a MARC dump of the bib files. The process is clean, you can convert the data to whatever format you like, and you're golden If you are only interested in certain fields, it might be easier to use delimited output from Create Lists -- particularly if how the fields are indexed in III is important to you. The other major alternatives include making sure xrecord is enabled and then just picking all the records up in XML. Unless the III specific fields (e.g. bcodes, suppression codes, etc) or what internal III tags are associated with each MARC field are important for your application, I recommend against this approach. III generates the second suckiest XML I've seen in my life so it's a PITA to work with (the State of Oregon CMS generates XML with a level of suckiness that will never be topped). You can also crawl the public OPAC and parsing the textual representation of the MARC bib record. If you don't have admin rights on the machine, this is not a horrible way to go since you don't need to worry about waiting for people to help you, dealing with Create List files that are only a tiny fraction the size of the entire DB, etc. III bib records are numbered sequentially, so it's easy enough to guess an entire database and pull up every record in the webopac by bib control number. kyle