Esteven and Paul: Thanks you both for your answers. Our librarians concern with field 008 is that they want to be capable of exporting correctly formated records to other libraries. Maybe Paul idea es in the best solution. Paul POULAIN wrote:
Baljkas Family a écrit :
We have a doubt about field 008: Does Koha uses it? How is filled?
When I last asked about this recently, I was told that Koha doesn't use the 008.
I am not sure how it would be filled automatically, or even if that is what Koha tries to do with it. Otherwise, I think you'd have to create a coding sequence that would suffice for your library's needs and meet at least the minimum requirements (008 positions 6, 7-10, 11-14, 15-17, 35-37, 38 and 39).
Properly, a cataloguer should be coding the 008 field *individually for each MARC record*, since the elements that constitute the 008 can only be coded accurately from inspection of the item being described.
An other possibility, implying some coding that could be added to official Koha : develop a plugin to do it automatically. ESMP in France has developped plugins for 1xx fields, that also have many calculated bytes. Feel free to copy them (it's in value_builder directory of Koha) and modify for 008.
The 210 and 215 plugins may also be useful to see how to find a value in the MARC editor (and thus automatically suggest something) : the 210 searches for the ISBN, that is in 010 field. The 215 searches for ISBN (010) and editor (210) to build the list of possible collections.