Saturday, April 17, 2004 15:15 CDT Hi, Stephen, Ernest, et al. Re: the 'not yet' answer to Ernesto's question
Is there a way to create diferent tag structures so I have predefined templates for books, magazines, pictures, videos, cds, etc???
I am going to display my programming ignorance again and ask a follow-up question re: Stephen's specification that
It seems like this would require a separate marc_subfield_structure table for each item type. Then the user could specify which item type they want to catalog and Koha would consult the appropriate table to determine which tags and subfields would be displayed. (This would mean that the task of setting up the MARC subfield structure would be even more complex than it is now! So if Koha were to implement this change, it would be nice if people would share their templates with others, once they have them defined.)
Would it be possible to include with the Koha distribution dummy 'records' (templates) of each of the common GMD types? If these could be made difficult to delete or alter accidentally, they would serve as the kind of templates Ernesto probably means. (This is what the ILS's Athena and MicroCat do essentially; probably others also.) I would be willing to take the time (inter-contracts now) to work on detailing the MARC21 tag structure specifics if that would help. I hope to be up and running with Koha's latest stable version later this month and could harvest and export the tag structures (as was explained in the answer to a question I posed for Doc) after setting them up in my Koha. Anyway, Stephen, would it be possible to have dummy 'records' as a simple solution? Cheers, Steven F. Baljkas library tech at large Koha neophyte Winnipeg, MB, Canada --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.659 / Virus Database: 423 - Release Date: 15/04/2004