On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, Tonnesen Steve wrote:
Obviously Koha doesn't have this complexity of subject headings, and probably doesn't need it, but I'm suspecting that we probably don't want to mix subject headings from different cataloging systems. Any possibility of adding a field to bibliosubject to specify a subject heading system used?
Hmm yeah Ill have a think on this, so a field that might have say 650 in it, to let the system no that if you are using marc thats the subject heading you have used? I guess leave it blank if you're not interested in marc?
Also, should I be adding any subject headings gathered from MARC records to the catalogueentry table (which I assume is used to deter librarians from adding new, conflicting subject headings like "Cows" and "Bovines").
Actually the catalogueentry table is somewhat of a red herring. The bibliosubject table is the authority table for subjects. When a librarian is cataloguing any subject entered is checked against the bibliosubject table, and a warning is made if the subject doesnt already exist. The librarians can then force the subject if they want to. Or choose a more appropriate one. With the addition of marc records the authority checking routine would need some changing but not a huge amount i dont think. Chris -- Chris Cormack Katipo Communications Programmer/Sys Admin chris@katipo.co.nz 025 500 789 www.katipo.co.nz