Hi guys, Those who follow the CVS mailing list may have notice a few CVS-commit yesterday. few, but VERY IMPORTANT. They are the 1st commit i made for the MARC stuff in koha that make koha USE MARC-DB (or at least begins to...) If you play sometimes with a cvs version, you MUST follow the following upgrade operations : * install MARC::Record package, from cpan or sourceforge * OVERWRITE File.pm and USMARC.pm. The original misses 1 functionnality we absolutly need in koha (reading a MARC from a variable, not from a file). Thanks to Steve, who modified MARC::Record. * modify your DB by adding marcschema.sql tables * populate new tables by launching fill_usmarc.pl. If you do it, the old-koha is expected to work as in version 1.2. if you don't, NOTHING WILL WORK, as sql will fail most of time ;-\ * *TEST HELP NEEDED* * Test this dev version, and notice bugs you should find. The rule is quite simple : APPARENTLY, NOTHING HAS CHANGED. If you find something new, it shall be a bug... If you can test this version and approve it, we could continue the road to MARC-management. If you spend some time on it, pls make a report on this list if you find no bugs, or report bugs on bugs.koha.org (use Version=CVS and assigned to paul.poulain@free.fr) * *MARC HELP NEEDED* * the MARC version of koha is supposed to accept any MARC format. Do do this, there is a parameter table that contains the meaning of every tag code. for instance, there is only a definition of USMARC in english. We need to have some other definitions. If you want help : you just have to create a file with some rows : * the tag number * the subfield code * the complete meaning of the tag/subfield. It's usually an excerpt of the xxMARC norma. It's used in the librarian interface. * the meaning of the tag/subfield, simplified. It's how we could call the tag/subfield for an opac-using person. Not ALL the tag/subfield pairs have to be filled with this value. * if the tag/subfield is mandatory (0=NO, 1=YES) * if the tag/subfield is repeatable (0=NO, 1=YES) Please, create this with a spreadsheet, putting all values of a given tag/subfield on 1 line. Then export it in CSV format. If you prefer, you can directly build a text file, but ALWAYS put the 6 values on the same line, separated by what you want. sample : 100;a;"Unified LOC Title (see red book USMARC page 24)";"book title";1;0 100;b;"Unified LOC subtitles";"";0;1 ... (note this example means nothing i think !) * *DEV HELP NEEDED* * a LOT of stuff is still to do on MARC-koha. On the wiki (http://www.saas.nsw.edu.au/wiki/index.php?page=ToDoMARC) i made a page with what is still to do, with some ideas about how to do it. If someone wants to give me a hand, it'll be VERY nice. thanks for your attention. -- Paul koha release manager 1.4