Dear developer, Koha is a wonderful library system. The current version just allows to choose either UNIMARC or USMARC. How can let Koha support to choose both UNIMARC and USMARC? I hope the future version can let more option on marc framework. Thanks a lot. Peter Zhao
Hi Peter
Oggetto: [Koha] Let Unimarc and USmarc work together
Dear developer, Koha is a wonderful library system. The current version just allows to choose either UNIMARC or USMARC. How can let Koha support to choose both UNIMARC and USMARC? I hope the future version can let more option on marc framework.
In the near future Koha will support better the two standard. You can help on this bug for this topic: http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=6536 But it is impossible to plan now to support records in both UNIMARC and MARC21 format together in the same installation. For example tag 100 has a specific meaning (Main Author as persone) in MARC21 and a very different in UNIMAC (GENERAL PROCESSING DATA, as 008 in MARC21). In theory it is possible but it is very huge change and non ILS has now this feature (thing about Evergreen, Aleph500, Millennium, etc.). Bye Zeno Tajoli
Just a note Koha supports MARC21, UNIMARC and NORMARC. But like Zeno says supporting records of all three (and more) in one installation would be a decent amount of work. And therefore quite unlikely to be done unless someone is willing to fund the work. Chris On Apr 28, 2012 8:58 PM, <tajoli@cilea.it> wrote:
Hi Peter
Oggetto: [Koha] Let Unimarc and USmarc work together
Dear developer, Koha is a wonderful library system. The current version just allows to choose either UNIMARC or USMARC. How can let Koha support to choose both UNIMARC and USMARC? I hope the future version can let more option on marc framework.
In the near future Koha will support better the two standard. You can help on this bug for this topic: http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=6536
But it is impossible to plan now to support records in both UNIMARC and MARC21 format together in the same installation. For example tag 100 has a specific meaning (Main Author as persone) in MARC21 and a very different in UNIMAC (GENERAL PROCESSING DATA, as 008 in MARC21).
In theory it is possible but it is very huge change and non ILS has now this feature (thing about Evergreen, Aleph500, Millennium, etc.).
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Koha is a wonderful library system. The current version just allows to choose either UNIMARC or USMARC. How can let Koha support to choose both UNIMARC and USMARC? I hope the future version can let more option on marc framework. Thanks a lot.
You can't do both at the moment. I don't remember any current work on it, but I think there's at least three possible approaches that could change that: 1. Koha allows multiple Koha-to-MARC mappings and let each record declare which mapping to use, but I suspect that will cause lots of problems; 2. Koha maps MARC21 and UNIMARC to something (maybe MARC21 or UNIMARC? Has this been done by any librarians?), use that as the internal structure and then transform every record as it goes in or out of the system; 3. we map imported records to the chosen MARC structure and don't worry about preserving all the detail of the original. Would librarians or other developers have comments on these or other possible approaches, any relevant bugs, RFCs or rumoured work, and the abilities of Zebra and Solr to handle multiple MARC structures? Hope that helps, -- MJ Ray (slef), member of www.software.coop, a for-more-than-profit co-op. http://koha-community.org supporter, web and library systems developer. In My Opinion Only: see http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html Available for hire (including development) at http://www.software.coop/
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