[Koha] MARC Records

[Chris Cormack]

Hi there

> 
> Is anybody working on supporting Marc records at all?  I've written a
> short perl script that will parse the data in a Marc records file, and
> could probably write something up that would insert records into the Mysql
> database, if work isn't being done on this already.

That I know of, no one is currently working on this. It would be great if
you wanted too.
> 
> How are Marc records normally handled?  Is biblio data entered in only for
> books that the library holds, or is an entire CD full of biblio data
> loaded into the library database?  I'm thinking that a new table should be
> added that will hold the entire Marc record for a bibliography, as the
> Marc record will certainly contain more info than the Koha Mysql tables
> currently will contain.  Storing the Marc records would mean that the
> record itself could be parsed and displayed on the screen for each biblio
> if more info was desired.


At the moment Marc records arent handled. The Horowhenua libraries dont
deal with Marc at all (Rosalie could probably expand on this, as to the
reasons why). So we didnt build any Marc handling into Koha.
I think you are right tho, a new table should be made to contain the marc
record, and a field added to the biblio table perhaps, that keyed into the
marc record. 

Let me know if you need anything else, there are a couple of very
rudimentary ERD's on developer.koha.org. 
Im hoping soon to have cvsweb, and/or anonymous cvs access running, so the
latest version of the scripts can be obtained.
So keep an eye on developer.koha.org.

Chris
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