On 12 May 2012 09:09, BWS Johnson <abesottedphoenix@yahoo.com> wrote:
Salvete!
T he working Group of spanish Koha-Kobli community (http://kobli.bage.es) is finishing to bring up to date the default framework to the last update of MARC21, the 14 (April 2012), we will send it to Koha community shortly.
We believe that it is not at all incompatible to update the default framework with to add functionalities related semantic web and RDA. Anyway we need to be able to collect certain information in the fields and subfields of MARC framework to add these new features
Sweet. :D
Hi Cecil
These could be added to the default framework and plugins developed. But since the Library of Congress has backed right off RDA + MARC and has said that that is not the way forward. We lost urgency on adding this. I think in terms of RDA the work Magnus is doing with SemantiKoha and RDF is going to be much more use in the long run.
Excepting that they haven't. This was sent out to the GOVDOCS listserv.
Except that they have http://www.loc.gov/marc/transition/news/framework-103111.html Chris
Cheers, Brooke
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