Steven F. Baljkas a écrit :
Anyway, that's all I had to say on the 008 and its complexities.
In fact, I mixed 2 differents things because I know only a few things on MARC21. Let me explain : In UNIMARC, * The 210/225 fields can sometimes be CALCULATED from other values (ISBN in my sample) * The 1xx fields are byte oriented fields : each byte has it's own meaning. VERY hard to type manually. We have 2 completly differents plugins for UNIMARC, but they use the same mechanics (the plugin API) : For 210/225, we try to calculate the editor & the collection from the ISBN. For 1xx, we just show nice list, select boxes, checked values to HELP the cataloguer. Nothing is calculated here. The user is just helped : when he arrives on the 101 field, he gets a ... on the right, that pops up a popup, with a nice GUI to help him & make things easier. For the MARC21 008 field, it seems the plugin system should be used like for UNIMARC 1xx . I hope it's more clear. -- Paul POULAIN Consultant indépendant en logiciels libres responsable francophone de koha (SIGB libre http://www.koha-fr.org)