<div>So if we were to download books directly from other libraries... it may involve lots of record code editing, as all the Chinese info in other libraries will be entered into tag 880. </div> <div> </div> <div>e.g. 100 Author name in pinyin</div> <div> 245 Author name in pinyin</div> <div> 880 $6100 Author name in chinese</div> <div> 880 $6245 Title name in Chinese</div> <div> </div> <div>With the MARC record downloaded, I wonder if I can swap the information in tag 880 $6100 with that of tag 100, so that when I upload the record into Koha, OPAC will display the author name in Chinese instead of pinyin.</div> <div> </div> <div> I suspect MARCEdit will not be able to recognize the $6 link. So I cannot designate the info at tag 100 to be swapped with info at
tag 880$100 and not say 880$245.</div> <div> </div> <div>Anyway, Joshua, you have been of a great help. Thank you.</div> <div> </div> <div>Carol<BR><B><I>Joshua Ferraro <jmf@liblime.com></I></B> wrote:</div> <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">On Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 09:39:43AM -0800, Carol Ku wrote:<BR>> Joshua:<BR>> You are wonderful!!! You mention you used the Koha MARC edit in catalogue,<BR>> that means you manually enter the Chinese books in koha catalogue, and not<BR>> download the record from some libraries?<BR>Yep, that's right. So long as you have UTF-8 set up correctly, you can input<BR>as well as display any utf-8 you want in Koha.<BR><BR>Now, let me warn you that the Koha MARC editor is still not perfect<BR>and I would still recommend you use an external MARC editor if that<BR>has been your cataloging practice thusfar. You should be able to set<BR>it up to handle a
repeatable 900, 945, etc. tag, with the appropriate<BR>subfields to handle the transcriptions (don't limit yourself to just<BR>the title/author, feel free to include any others you want). So long<BR>as you set up your MARC Framework to handle the 9XX fields and link<BR>to them via the search points (ie 245a will need a 'search also'<BR>entry for '945a','945c' (and you might as well put '245c' in there<BR>while you're at it)), it will work without having to use Koha's<BR>editor. If you need more specific implementation details let me <BR>know.<BR><BR>> Pardon me if this question appears to be silly. But your input is <BR>> very helpful still.<BR>No question is silly :-). I'm glad I could be of some help.<BR><BR>Sincerely,<BR><BR>-- <BR>Joshua Ferraro VENDOR SERVICES FOR OPEN-SOURCE SOFTWARE<BR>President, Technology migration, training, maintenance, support<BR>LibLime Featuring Koha Open-Source ILS<BR>jmf@liblime.com |Full Demos at http://liblime.com/koha
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