Hi, We are a small special library (archaeology and cultural heritage) of about 80.000 items. We're currently considering changing our library system and are considering Koha. In order to get all our data in the system, we would require the use of the 773 and 774 fields. I've been experimenting a bit with koha 3 (zebra enabled), but I can't seem to get these fields to work. I'm trying to create links between records using the 773$w and 774$W subfields (control numbers). I've tried to find out as much as I could from the perl scripts, but I'm not very familiar with the language. Does Koha do anything with these fields? If so, what does it do with them and how should I use them? Kind regards, Maarten
I'm trying to create links between records using the 773$w and 774$W subfields (control numbers).
I've tried to find out as much as I could from the perl scripts, but I'm not very familiar with the language. Does Koha do anything with these fields? If so, what does it do with them and how should I use them?
It's not implemented in Koha-MARC21, but there is something equivalent in Koha-UNIMARC. Take a look at /cataloguing/value_builder/unimarc_field_4XX.pl script. Your 773 field should have to be defined with a $9 subfield containing a link to related biblio record. The value builder script would have to populate 773 subfields after a search. Of course, during conversion process, after importing your records, you will have to loop through all biblio records, and for each one find a parent biblio record and populated 773$9... -- Frédéric DEMIANS http://www.tamil.fr/u/fdemians.html
I believe that those fields are currently hidden in the "default" framework. That could be easily changed so that they would be available to you. Of course, any current record with those fields should import OK as far as I have seen. Kathy At 07:03 AM 10/22/2008, Maarten Vermeyen wrote:
Hi,
We are a small special library (archaeology and cultural heritage) of about 80.000 items. We're currently considering changing our library system and are considering Koha. In order to get all our data in the system, we would require the use of the 773 and 774 fields. I've been experimenting a bit with koha 3 (zebra enabled), but I can't seem to get these fields to work.
I'm trying to create links between records using the 773$w and 774$W subfields (control numbers).
I've tried to find out as much as I could from the perl scripts, but I'm not very familiar with the language. Does Koha do anything with these fields? If so, what does it do with them and how should I use them?
Kind regards,
Maarten
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