[Koha] Migrating, analyticals and MARC frameworks

[Patrick - Biblioteca Casa Balthasar]

Elaine,

Reguarding your second question:

2) Analyticals - we've got lots of them, and they're one of the most

useful features of our database. One of our advisory committee has

suggested that we make a live link between the child record (eg. a

conference paper in a book of proceedings) and the parent record (the

proceedings themselves).  I know where to do this in MARC, but I'm not

sure what should go in there.  How do you put a hotlink between

biblios?  Has anyone tried? Does it use the biblio number as a target?


This feature works great in Koha and is easy enough to do.  Just put the
biblio number in 773$w or 774$w depending on the relationship you want to
establish between records. 773$t, the field for the title is required by
Koha. The rest of the subfields along with the title will be concatenated
into the text that is displayed to your users; here there's a great deal of
flexibility in how you can use and also order the subfields.

Best,
Patrick Redmon

On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 6:22 PM, Elaine Bradtke <bradtke.e at googlemail.com>wrote:

> We're experimenting with migrating from a database into KOHA and I've
> got three sort of interrelated questions.
> 1) once you've sucked in the newly minted MARC (I'll skip over the
> techno-magic our IT wizard is doing to get to that point) it seems as
> if it's still necessary to go into the MARC record and add info into
> 003 005 and 008 fields.  Is there any way that can be done either as
> part of the conversion process or as part of the importation? If it
> isn't done until sometime later (like when we get around to adding
> barcodes), does it wreak havoc in some part of the system that I
> haven't thought of?  It looks as if searching works fine on unedited
> records.
>
> 2) Analyticals - we've got lots of them, and they're one of the most
> useful features of our database. One of our advisory committee has
> suggested that we make a live link between the child record (eg. a
> conference paper in a book of proceedings) and the parent record (the
> proceedings themselves).  I know where to do this in MARC, but I'm not
> sure what should go in there.  How do you put a hotlink between
> biblios?  Has anyone tried? Does it use the biblio number as a target?
>
> 3) There seem to be quite a profusion of MARC frameworks.  While I
> understand it will be useful when we bring in our data on Serials, and
> possibly the audio and video collections, I'm wondering what the point
> is for all the rest of the stuff.  I've had to do some tweaking to the
> MARC framework to accommodate some of the complexities of our
> collection.  So far I've done this in the Books, Booklets, Workbooks
> framework.  But the import seems to go into the Default framework.
> Should I be making all my tweaks in the Default framework and not
> worry about the others for now? The items we're currently attempting
> to import are (mostly) some form of printed material.
>
> 4) Ours is primarily a research collection with very few items that
> circulate and very few borrowers. I'd like to switch off the display
> of the 'not for loan' status, and perhaps hide the number of items
> (since, in the case of the analyticals it will say no items, which
> might be confusing).  Has anyone made this sort of modification?
>
> thanks!
> --
> Elaine
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