<div>You are perfectly right. I noticed that most libraries such as Library of Congress, they represent Chinese pinyin in tag 100, and this piece of info is linked to tag 880 $6100 and with other related subfields etc...</div> <div> </div> <div>We would like to do the following:</div> <div> </div> <div>1) save the pinyin and Chinese in Koha.</div> <div>2) Display Chinese info in OPAC</div> <div>3) Allow user to search using pinyin if they don't have Chinese input</div> <div> </div> <div>Since Koha display only one line item for title, author etc, we are thinking may be we need to use MARCEdit to tweak tag 100 to 880 $6100. I was advised by others that I should instead designate new tag e.g. 900 for tag 880 $6100, 901 for tag 880 $6245 etc.</div> <div> </div> <div>To make things more complicated, MARCEdit does not seem to recognize the $6 link either. So it will treat all tag 880 as one tag.<BR><B><I>Joshua Ferraro
<jmf@liblime.com></I></B> wrote:</div> <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 12:26:29PM -0800, Carol Ku wrote:<BR>> i think the $6 linking field is different from a regular <BR>> subfield a, b or c<BR>> etc.<BR>> <BR>> In MARC, all the information on the book will be stored in the native<BR>> language in tag 880. Then they use $6 linking field to tie 880 to tag 100<BR>> for Name etc... so e.g. 880 $6100 a.... so this tag means information<BR>> stored here is the author name (designated by code $6100) in e.g Chinese. <BR>> $6 is not a regular subfield....<BR>OK ... first let's discuss what you're trying to do. I have had two<BR>years of Chinese language classes so I know that there are several<BR>ways to represent Chinese. Are you attempting to put 'pinyin' in the<BR>100a and then link to the actual characters in 880? What is your goal<BR>in using the
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