[Koha] Marc Field 008? Plug-in would not work

[Paul POULAIN]

Steven F. Baljkas a écrit :

>Anyway, that's all I had to say on the 008 and its complexities.
>  
>
In fact, I mixed 2 differents things because I know only a few things on 
MARC21. Let me explain :
In UNIMARC,
* The 210/225 fields can sometimes be CALCULATED from other values (ISBN 
in my sample)
* The 1xx fields are byte oriented fields : each byte has it's own 
meaning. VERY hard to type manually.

We have 2 completly differents plugins for UNIMARC, but they use the 
same mechanics (the plugin API) :
For 210/225, we try to calculate the editor & the collection from the ISBN.
For 1xx, we just show nice list, select boxes, checked values to HELP 
the cataloguer. Nothing is calculated here. The user is just helped : 
when he arrives on the 101 field, he gets a ... on the right, that pops 
up a popup, with a nice GUI to help him & make things easier.

For the MARC21 008 field, it seems the plugin system should be used like 
for UNIMARC 1xx .

I hope it's more clear.

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Paul POULAIN
Consultant indépendant en logiciels libres
responsable francophone de koha (SIGB libre http://www.koha-fr.org)