[Koha] RDA fields 336, 337, 338

[Chris Cormack]

On 12 May 2012 09:09, BWS Johnson <abesottedphoenix at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
Except that they have

http://www.loc.gov/marc/transition/news/framework-103111.html

Chris

> Cheers,
> Brooke
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