[Koha-devel] Re: Is MARC support in Koha only partial?

[paul POULAIN]

Ambrose LI <acli at 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.

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Paul POULAIN
Consultant indépendant en logiciels libres
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