I have to agree with Steven -- dummy records in this context would be a good idea: Steven F. Baljkas said:
Sunday, April 18, 2004 15:38 CDT <snip> I am not sure what Ernesto would like, and I shan't try to speak for him. However, for many cataloguing workers, exactly how the template for a record works probably doesn't matter. What does matter is that it have/indicate the required fields AND that, in as many cases as possible, predetermined information be there complete at the start.
So, for example, if you were cataloguing kit materials (fairly common in many schools), you'll probably have at least 1 007 tag as well as the standard 008 tag. If your school regularly had kit items with a CD-ROM, you would set the value in 007 to whatever we are calling electronic resources today. ;-) The 008 might be set by default for book material, with defaults for illustrative matter, audience, indexing, language, etc.
For all templates, you would want to have the 245 $h with the GMD pre-entered. Other fields that were more or less specific to various formats would be entered, e.g. 856 tag for live web links to continuing resources like web pages. Any standardised notes for specific materials would be part of the template, too, e.g. 538 tags with system information for electronic resources.
Ideally, you would probably won't to allow for templates to be editable according to the individual library's preferences and needs, although a starting set based on the clear standard of the GMDs would not be a bad place to start.
I've submitted a 'bug' report for this enhancement (http://bugs.koha.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=769). -- Stephen Hedges Skemotah Solutions, USA www.skemotah.com -- shedges@skemotah.com