[Koha] MARC for RDA

[Weinheimer Jim]

For an overview of the changes from AACR2 to RDA, see the SLC's Cheat Sheet at: http://www.slc.bc.ca/cheats/aacr22rda.htm If RDA is adopted, the ISBD 245$h will be discontinued, and they are replacing them with the 336-338 fields. Of course, this is controversial, and many want to continue following ISBD rules, which after all, are long-established and international in scope.

Looking at the 336-338 fields in the Cheat Sheet shows that they are not very "human-friendly" since they use strange terminology, e.g. "mediated" "unmediated", and many believe (including me) that while generating the ISBD format 245$h is OK, more important is generating different icons, since this will be more meaningful to people. And just as simple to do!

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Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2011 10:15 AM
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Subject: Re: [Koha] MARC for RDA

Kohn, Karen wrote:
> I am reading some advice on how to prepare the catalog for RDA records,
> and it suggests that I map the MARC fields 338 and 336 to display as
> 245, subfield h.  I have modified MARC frameworks in the past but don't
> know how I would make one field display as another in the OPAC.  Is
> there a way to do this?

You could make one field look like part of another in the OPAC if you're
using XSLT views by editing the XSL files in the templates
koha-tmpl/opac-tmpl/prog/LANGUAGE-CODE-HERE/xslt/

I suspect you can do it with isbd views but I have not checked.

What advice are you reading that suggests that?

Hope that helps,
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