On Tue, Sep 03, 2013 at 10:09:25AM +0100, dasos ili wrote: > Meanwhile new tools for searching and retrieving records have come in, > such as Solr and Elasticsearch. Any ideas on how one could alter (or > propose a new format) more suited to the mechanisms of these two > search platforms? as MARC records are just arrays of arrays, i just use an array of array (as described here: https://metacpan.org/module/MARCC/marc-mir-0.4/lib/MARC/MIR.pod ) So i don't need to specify a format for JSON, YAML, msgpack, s-expression based DSL: i just use the dumper provided by those libs. No code is the best code :) -- Marc Chantreux Université de Strasbourg, Direction Informatique 14 Rue René Descartes, 67084 STRASBOURG CEDEX ☎: 03.68.85.57.40 http://unistra.fr "Don't believe everything you read on the Internet" -- Abraham Lincoln