Good afternoon.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2012/1/13 Chris Cormack <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:chrisc@catalyst.net.nz" target="_blank">chrisc@catalyst.net.nz</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div>* <a href="mailto:anaisabel.gonzalez@MCU.ES" target="_blank">anaisabel.gonzalez@MCU.ES</a> (<a href="mailto:anaisabel.gonzalez@MCU.ES" target="_blank">anaisabel.gonzalez@MCU.ES</a>) wrote:<br>
> Dear all,<br>
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> I have a question about the Marc 21 update used in the default framework of Koha version 3.4. Does anybody can tell me which is the Marc 21 Update used?<br>
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> The WorkGroup into the Koha-Kobli Community in Spanish (<a href="http://kobli.bage.es" target="_blank">http://kobli.bage.es</a>) is working in analyze the new functionalities for Koha and our customized distribution named Kobli. In order to study the Marc 21 – RDA we need to know the Marc 21 Update and if Koha Community has worked on it or has any report about it.<br>
> (For further information about KOBLI , please see Koha archive <a href="http://lists.katipo.co.nz/pipermail/koha/2011-April/028481.html" target="_blank">http://lists.katipo.co.nz/pipermail/koha/2011-April/028481.html</a>)<br>
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</div>Koha 3.6.2 (soon to be .3) is the current stable release. Perhaps<br>
looking at that (3.8.0 will be released April 22) will be more useful?<br>
<br>
But as far as I know the default MARC21 framework has not been<br>
updated, I have seen frameworks with the RDA fields in them. And since<br>
in Koha 3.6.x you can import and export frameworks, adding RDA support<br>
in MARC (even though the Library of Congress has decided that is not<br>
the right thing to do) is possible.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>I think there is a slight terminological misunderstanding here. I believe Nani is referring to the MARC Updates released by LC as steward of the MARC standard. The frameworks included with Koha are based on MARC21 Update 7 (no, that is not a typo), released October 2006 (!). Updating the frameworks to match the latest MARC21 update (number 13, for those who are counting) would be a very good idea. So far no one has funded such a project, unfortunately, and -- equally unfortunately -- it would be a pretty big project.</div>
<div><br></div><div>However, confusion over what the word "update" referred to aside, Chris is right that you should be using the latest stable version (3.6.2, soon to be 3.6.3).</div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div>
<div>Jared Camins-Esakov</div>
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