[Koha-devel] Koha 2.2 and MARC21 and documenting

[Paul POULAIN]

Stephen Hedges wrote:

>Paul POULAIN said:
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>>=====In Koha 2.2, the authorities are managed like biblios in Koha 2.0 :
>>through MARC parameters tables.
>>I've defined (or am defining) those tables for UNIMARC, and for various
>>authority types (author, subject...)
>>THE SAME JOB MUST BE DONE FOR MARC21.
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>Paul, I'm not clearly understanding what you need.  I've looked at
>auth_tag_structure.pl, auth_subfields_structure.pl, and authtypes.pl and
>it looks like the tables are defined independent of the MARC flavour.  Are
>you looking for someone to insert some suggested MARC21 values into
>"pre-loaded" tables (auth_tag_structure, auth_subfield_structure, and
>auth_types).  Or do you need someone to set up MARC21_auth_tag_structure,
>MARC21_auth_subfield_structure, and MARC21_auth_types?
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>
You're right stephen, the actual code is MARC independant for 
authorities. It uses the auth_*_structure tables exactly like the 
marc_*_structure for biblios.
What we need is to fill those tables.
"transfer" http://www.loc.gov/marc/authority/ecadhome.html into Koha 
tables, I think.

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Paul POULAIN
Consultant indépendant en logiciels libres
responsable francophone de koha (SIGB libre http://www.koha-fr.org)