[Koha] Cataloguing articles

stefan herrkandera at gmx.ch
Sun Apr 18 00:55:39 NZST 2010


Thank you Nicole

I did not post the 008 country/language bug, since my solution is not 
working properly (it's more like a workaround for now). I think some 
modification in the marc21_field_008.tmpl is needed as well.
I will report, once solved.

Regards, Stefan

Nicole Engard schrieb:
> I have no answers, but I do have a suggestion and a question.
>
> First, you might want to take a look at the Journal Articles thread on
> this list where people are talking about a similar topic:
> http://lists.katipo.co.nz/pipermail/koha/2010-March/thread.html#23186
>
> My question is did you report a bug for your 008 country/language
> issue?  I ask because you said you reported a bug for the one before,
> but not that one.  If not, that is most certainly a bug and you should
> report it.
>
> Thanks
> Nicole C. Engard
>
> On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 12:28 AM, stefan <herrkandera at gmx.ch> wrote:
>   
>> Hi all
>>
>> We use Koha for cataloguing articles. Since these records are exported
>> to Vufind (OpenURL), the linkage isn't an issue for our purposes so far.
>> Maybe our experiences are helpful for other Koha users anyway.
>>
>> By now we have 400 Journals.
>>
>> - First thing we did, is to create a default “Article” MARC framework
>> with basic values already filled in (000, 008, 245 for punctuation, 773)
>>
>> - Since we need OpenURL, we expanded the tags for the 773 field
>> according to : http://www.loc.gov/marc/marbi/2003/2003-dp01.html
>> (Section 4.1)
>> __ <http://www.loc.gov/marc/marbi/2003/2003-dp01.html>
>> - We have a csv list with our Journals and the according ISSN. From
>> (MySQL) biblio_framework we created templates for the 400 Journals with
>> Jounal title and ISSN already filled in.
>>
>> Problems and Solutions:
>>
>> - Inside Koha it is quite difficult to find the right Journal out of 400
>> existing templates. Since we are using Drupal for Extranet and Intranet
>> we created a list of our journals with a direct link to the Koha
>> template (any other CMS might do as well ;-).
>>
>> - Since our databese is collaborative, some institutions are using IE.
>> The advanced tag editor for 000 and 008 is not opening with IE. Undo the
>> spaces in marc21_field_008_authorities.pl and marc21_field_008.pl in the
>> UNIMARC section (Bug reported).
>>
>> - Still in the 008, the country and language code are not in the correct
>> place. By consequence Vufind was not able to allocate country and
>> language from the 008 tag. Again this must be correctes in the
>> marc21_field_008.pl to 080602s2008(4)gw(12)00(4)ger(1)d (where the
>> numbers in brackets are the number of spaces to be filled in)
>>
>> By now we have no solution for following problem:
>>
>> - Our 773 subfield structure allows only to display the startpage. We
>> need to get the endpage OpenURL readable as well.
>>
>> The built in OpenURL module of Koha toghether with DAIA :
>> http://www.gbv.de/wikis/cls/Document_Availability_Information_API_(DAIA)
>> <DAIA>
>>
>> would be a great All in One solution for our purposes. If someone has
>> similar interests, please give a sign.
>>
>>
>> Greetings, Stefan
>>
>>
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