Hi All, I'm a new user to the list. (And just out of interest for the community have been embarking on a project to port Koha over to Windows NT/2000/XP. I'll create a separate post on this project if anyone's interested...) Also somewhat related to MARC, I have been investigating MARC-XML - which is a developing standard for converting MARC to the XML format... There are some great resources at this link - http://www.oasis-open.org/cover/marc.html Warmest Regards Andrew Hooper -----Original Message----- From: koha-admin@lists.katipo.co.nz [mailto:koha-admin@lists.katipo.co.nz] On Behalf Of Stephen Hedges Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2002 6:33 AM To: Rachel Hamilton-Williams; Cc: Subject: Re: [Koha] Adding New Fields to Koha - librarian help please. If Koha is still interested in eventually providing full MARC support for the database and the front end, you might want to look at how MARC handles this information. Abstracts are most commonly stored in the 520 tag and URLs in the 856 tag. But note that MARC also provides room for URLs in several other tags in subfield $u (the 520 tag happens to be one). See http://lcweb.loc.gov/marc/bibliographic for a complete (and often confusing!) discussion of the MARC format. Stephen Hedges, Director Nelsonville Public Library Nelsonville, Ohio, USA

Hi all,

We are investigating adding some new fields to Koha - for an URL and an Abstract to be stored.

At first glance I thought that they should be added to the Biblio table - so that all items of that title would see/have the abstract and URL.

However I wondered if it would be more appropriate to add them to the group record (which is the format information).

For most items the distinction is pretty academic, however if anyone has strong feelings in any direction I'd love to hear them.

Cheers Rachel _____________________________________________________________

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