Good afternoon. 2012/1/13 Chris Cormack <chrisc@catalyst.net.nz>
* anaisabel.gonzalez@MCU.ES (anaisabel.gonzalez@MCU.ES) wrote:
Dear all,
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?
The WorkGroup into the Koha-Kobli Community in Spanish ( http://kobli.bage.es) 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. (For further information about KOBLI , please see Koha archive http://lists.katipo.co.nz/pipermail/koha/2011-April/028481.html)
Koha 3.6.2 (soon to be .3) is the current stable release. Perhaps looking at that (3.8.0 will be released April 22) will be more useful?
But as far as I know the default MARC21 framework has not been updated, I have seen frameworks with the RDA fields in them. And since in Koha 3.6.x you can import and export frameworks, adding RDA support in MARC (even though the Library of Congress has decided that is not the right thing to do) is possible.
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. 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). Regards, Jared Camins-Esakov -- Jared Camins-Esakov Bibliographer, C & P Bibliography Services, LLC (phone) +1 (917) 727-3445 (e-mail) jcamins@cpbibliography.com (web) http://www.cpbibliography.com/