Hi All! Hi Chris! This is a great idea! It will help improve the correspondence between the Biblio records and MARC which has several places to note the language of the item - notably the 041 field which holds the language codes for the language of the work, the language of the original if a translation, etc. There is also a place in the 008 fixed data field to store the code - e.g.. eng for english, fre for french, ger for german, etc. There is a listing of all such codes on the MARC STANDARDS page of the Library of Congress Web Page.

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----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Cormack" <chris@katipo.co.nz> To: <koha-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> Sent: Friday, March 05, 2004 4:18 PM Subject: [Koha-devel] Language Field in Biblio table

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Hi All

As part of the work we did for UNIDO we added a language field to the biblio, so you could specify the language a book was written in. We also made this searchable from the intranet and the opac.

Now that we have a stable fork, I was thinking i'll add this into the cvs HEAD if people think its a useful feature. Ill also check what other changes I made and if they are useful add those as well.

Chris -- Chris Cormack Programmer 027 4500 789 Katipo Communications Ltd chris@katipo.co.nz www.katipo.co.nz

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