re: [Koha] MARC Import
Extra info: Cost-free but not free software.
MJ - Not sure of the distinction. Do you just mean it's not "truly free", as in open-source? For everyone's information, I've downloaded it to my Win2000 machine, and it works nicely. Here's the statistical report on some of my recently downloaded MARC records. I've massaged it a bit, and used "0" to show tags present in all records, "a" for tags present in most of them, down to "x" for rare ones. Very helpful in figuring out my MARC-to-Koha DB linking prior to importing. I'm also using BookWhere to display the record contents in a very browsable and readable way, it also reports and let me filter based on topical Subject listings. And finally, MARCEdit to actually the records. TAG FREQ MAX_LENGTH 001 0 15 003 0 6 005 0 17 008 0 41 015$a m 16 016$a x 24 020$a 0 126 035$a m 42 040$a m 11 049$a x 2 049$k x 12 049$l x 1 049$m x 1 050$a x 11 082$a m 15 082$2 m 12 082$d m 1 092$a m 19 100$a l 23 100$d l 13 245$a a 45 245$c a 97 245$b a 33 250$a x 8 260$a a 11 260$b a 27 260$c a 12 300$a a 9 300$b a 35 300$c a 12 400$a x 15 400$d x 5 400$t x 13 400$v x 1 440$a a 29 440$n a 22 440$p a 21 440$v a 5 490$a x 20 490$n x 8 490$p x 7 490$v x 1 500$a l 142 505$a x 93 600$a x 15 600$x x 14 650$a 0 33 650$v 0 25 650$x 0 19 650$z 0 25 650$y 0 12 651$a x 27 651$v x 17 651$x x 7 651$y x 20 700$a 0 29 700$d 0 13 700$t 0 40 700$q 0 17 700$c 0 4 800$a x 15 800$d x 5 800$t x 13 800$v x 2 852$a 0 5 852$b 0 13 852$h 0 10 852$p 0 9 852$y 0 8 852$5 0 9 852$9 0 8 852$m 0 17 852$z 0 18 852$3 0 15 852$7 0 9 971$a m 7 971$b m 6 972$a x 7 972$a x 6 973$a x 7 973$a x 6 997$a x 84
Hans Henderson a écrit :
Extra info: Cost-free but not free software.
MJ - Not sure of the distinction. Do you just mean it's not "truly free", as in open-source? For everyone's information, I've downloaded it to my Win2000 machine, and it works nicely.
It works, but it's not "libre software", it's "gratuit software". In french we have 2 differents words, and that's easier to understand ;-) MJ means it's "Free as beer" (=costless), but not "Free as speech" : we don't have source code, so we can't examine it, modify it or redistribute it. -- Paul POULAIN Consultant indépendant en logiciels libres responsable francophone de koha (SIGB libre http://www.koha-fr.org)
On 2004-07-09 11:02:45 +0100 Hans Henderson <hans@shrewsbury.ac.th> wrote:
Extra info: Cost-free but not free software. MJ - Not sure of the distinction. Do you just mean it's not "truly free", as in open-source?
Personally, I speak of free software in the style of http://www.fsfeurope.org/documents/freesoftware.en.html rather than the vague term http://mjr.towers.org.uk/writing/ambigopen.html used by people who promote software patenting in the EU. It's important to emphasise the freedom to create, especially when it's threatened by things like the "Free Trade Agreement" between the US and Australia. I'm glad to hear that program works for you, though. Maybe someone could ask them to free the software, as it doesn't look like they make money from it. -- MJR/slef My Opinion Only and not of any group I know http://www.ttllp.co.uk/ for creative copyleft computing "Before we try to work out if he's competent, let's work out if he's conscious." (anon. exam marker)
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