Is MARC support in Koha only partial?
Hi list, I just saw the following web page: http://www.loc.gov/marc/bibliographic/ecbdlist.html ... and I am thinking to myself that perhaps Koha doesn't support all the fields, subfields and indicators that are present in MARC21. I base my assumption on the fact that marc_tag_structure and marc_subfield_structure tables do not have them all there. Would it be right to assume that if those tables had all the fields with indicators and subfields that MARC21 specification includes then we would be able to create an input form to properly catalog new bibliographic records for later exporting them into iso-2709 file? Useful for sharing bibliographic records with other libraries. Benedict
Benedykt P. Barszcz said:
Hi list, I just saw the following web page: http://www.loc.gov/marc/bibliographic/ecbdlist.html
... and I am thinking to myself that perhaps Koha doesn't support all the fields, subfields and indicators that are present in MARC21. I base my assumption on the fact that marc_tag_structure and marc_subfield_structure tables do not have them all there.
All you need to do is put them in there when you define your own MARC tag structure. Koha keeps everything in every MARC record you load in the marc_subfield_table, so it's all there. The structure tables just tell Koha which MARC information you want to see when you edit or catalog -- Stephen Hedges Skemotah Solutions, USA www.skemotah.com -- shedges@skemotah.com
Hi, AFAIK, Koha's MARC support is partial in the following senses: 1. Fixed width tags (MARC21 00x tags) are not supported in a usable way. (You can enter the tags, but you can't manipulate the "subfields" [actually character positions] in any meaningful way.) 2. Repeatable subfields are not currently supported (Bug 731) 3. The ordering of certain subfields are significant (e.g., MARC21's 6xx v, w, x, y, z subfields), but Koha does not currently support user-specified ordering of subfields. (Bug 732) I can only speak as someone with minimal training as a "library volunteer", but as I understand it, my library's librarian regards #2 and #3 as being rather important (at least with regards to his perception of the quality of the MARC support). In article <1083586598.4567.11.camel@localhost.localdomain>, Benedykt P. Barszcz <kb2qzv@poczta.wp.pl> wrote:
Hi list, I just saw the following web page: http://www.loc.gov/marc/bibliographic/ecbdlist.html
... and I am thinking to myself that perhaps Koha doesn't support all the fields, subfields and indicators that are present in MARC21. I base my assumption on the fact that marc_tag_structure and marc_subfield_structure tables do not have them all there. [stuff deleted] -- Ambrose LI Cheuk-Wing <a.c.li@ieee.org>
Ambrose LI <acli@ada.dhs.org> via forwarder a écrit :
Hi,
AFAIK, Koha's MARC support is partial in the following senses:
1. Fixed width tags (MARC21 00x tags) are not supported in a usable way. (You can enter the tags, but you can't manipulate the "subfields" [actually character positions] in any meaningful way.)
you can develop "plugins" to do this. ENSMP will do it soon for UNIMARC 00x. You can look unimarc_field_100.pl & tmpl in value_builder to have a partial sample.
2. Repeatable subfields are not currently supported (Bug 731)
oups, I didn't saw that bug. In fact, there's an undocumented feature : to repeat just a subfield, enter the values separated by "|" like this : xxx|yyy xxx & yyy will be stored in 2 differents subfields.
3. The ordering of certain subfields are significant (e.g., MARC21's 6xx v, w, x, y, z subfields), but Koha does not currently support user-specified ordering of subfields. (Bug 732)
I agree with this one. -- Paul POULAIN Consultant indépendant en logiciels libres responsable francophone de koha (SIGB libre http://www.koha-fr.org)
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