[Koha-win32] Unimarc vs Marc21

[rafael.antonio at sapo.pt]

  Davita, 

  MARC21 is the widest standard regarding Library of Congress suport. UNIMARC was born to offer a commom plataform to exchange records and was adopted on several countries. 

  Find what your National Library and library comunity are using. It helps for training and suport. If it not relevant and you use english language then MARC21 is more adequatede regarding easly MARC21 import records available through Z39.50. 

  Regards, 

  Rafael Antonio  

  Citando Davita Janto <davita.janto at yahoo.com.au>: 

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>   We are starting our Koha 3 install tomorrow on Ubuntu. We are still not clear on whether to choose UNIMARCor MARC21. We have been searching the help files and list files and looking at MARC records. If we understand correctly we can only import using Z39.50 from the same \"flavor\" of MARC. Is this true?  
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>   We also understand that there are more MARC21 sites to import data from than UNIMARC sites. Is this true? Is there a reason to choose UNIMARC? 
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>   Our catalog includes Lao and Thai, does that point us towards UNIMARC for any reason? We are absolute beginners with no experience in either so will be starting from scratch with either however in doing a crash course on MARC through the internet it is clear that there is more info to help with MARC21. 
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>   Thanks for your suggestions. 
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