Hello Alice, and everyone, Funny you should bring this up. I was planning to bring it up myself a while later after we got our system running smoothly, but this seems like a good time since we're not the only ones interested in this kind of a project. A few years ago, we started Authors' Day, a celebration of Hospital Center associates who have written articles, book chapters, etc. Last year, we started tracking the articles in Reference Manager so we could analyze the data a bit more, and include subject headings, etc., in the citations. The next step is to put the data into Koha to make it widely and easily accessible to anyone on the hospital network. Who knows? Someday we might be able to make it available outside our firewall as well. My idea is to install a second instance of Koha on our server (I did it already on a test system, so that's not a major problem) and use it exclusively for local authors. Just about everything our associates publish is in Medline, so one of the things we're pondering is how to convert MeSH to MARC. Like Alice, we've looked at analytics and we don't think that's the solution. Some of the other things we're considering include: * We're only interested in indexing local authors, but we ought to include the non-local co-authors in the record. * We want to differentiate between journal article, book, chapter, etc. Maybe Item Types? * There's also the consideration of what kind of journal article--case report, letter, randomized controlled trial, etc. Maybe Collection Code? * Right now we're indexing articles from three MedStar divisions, but eventually we'd consider adding other hospitals. Different branches? * We also want to include departmental affiliation. So I guess my question is, has anyone else done something like this? Can anyone offer any pointers? BTW, the actual conversion of one set of tags to another is not all that difficult. I found a program called Replace Text that you can set up to look for every instance of xxx and convert it to yyy, for multiple values of xxx and yyy. I'm sure there are others. Cheers, Fred King Medical Librarian, MedStar Washington Hospital Center fred.king@medstar.net 202-877-6221 ---------------------------- Original Message ---------------------------- Subject: [Koha] Help Re: Journal Articles From: "Alice Esguerra" <kaces08@gmail.com> Date: Mon, July 8, 2013 12:33 am To: koha@lists.katipo.co.nz -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hello everyone, We are new with Koha, we started 2 years ago with Koha 2.9 and recently migrated to Koha 3.12 (May of this year). My concern is about our periodical indexes. We have manually encoded about 1000 records of indexes to journal and magazine articles. I'd like to create a MARC framework for this. Can somebody please help us as to what MARC tags to use for the framework? I have seen the discussion about "Analytics" but I don't think this is applicable to us because we only prepared records for the "component articles" while the "parent or host item" (for journals) were not recorded in our OPAC. Our objective is to make a simple framework that is searchable and wouldn't have any conflict with the MARC rules. We really hope to hear from you. Thank you in advance! alice -- Alicia C. Esguerra Associate Professor I/ Librarian Bulacan State University City of Malolos, Bulacan 3000 Philippines +63 044 7961417 www.bulsu.edu.ph _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha CONFIDENTIAL: The information contained in this communication, including its attachments, may contain confidential information and is intended only for the individual(s) or entity(ies) to whom it is addressed. The information contained in this communication may also be protected by legal privilege, federal law or other applicable law. If you are not the intended recipient of this communication, you are hereby notified that any distribution, dissemination or duplication of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please immediately delete and destroy all copies of this message and please immediately notify us of the error by separate communication. Thank you.