[Koha] RDA fields 336, 337, 338

[BWS Johnson]

Salvete!


>T he working Group of spanish Koha-Kobli community (http://kobli.bage.es) is 
> finishing to bring up to date the default framework to the last update of 
> MARC21, the 14 (April 2012), we will send it to Koha community shortly.
> 
> We believe that it is not at all incompatible to update the default framework 
> with to add functionalities related semantic web and RDA. Anyway we need to be 
> able to collect certain information in the fields and subfields of MARC 
> framework to add these new features 
> 

    Sweet. :D


> Hi Cecil
> 
> These could be added to the default framework and plugins developed.
> But since the Library of Congress has backed right off RDA + MARC and
> has said that that is not the way forward. We lost urgency on adding
> this. I think in terms of RDA the work Magnus is doing with
> SemantiKoha and RDF is going to be much more use in the long run.
> 
>

    Excepting that they haven't. This was sent out to the GOVDOCS listserv.

Cheers,
Brooke

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