[Koha] Adding New Fields to Koha - librarian help please.

[Stephen Hedges]

If Koha is still interested in eventually providing full MARC support for the 
database and the front end, you might want to look at how MARC handles this 
information.  Abstracts are most commonly stored in the 520 tag and URLs in the 
856 tag.  But note that MARC also provides room for URLs in several other tags 
in subfield $u (the 520 tag happens to be one).  See 
http://lcweb.loc.gov/marc/bibliographic for a complete (and often confusing!) 
discussion of the MARC format.

Stephen Hedges, Director
Nelsonville Public Library
Nelsonville, Ohio, USA

> Hi all,
> 
> We are investigating adding some new fields to Koha  - for an URL and an
> Abstract to be stored.
> 
> At first glance I thought that they should be added to the Biblio table - so
> that all items of that title would see/have the abstract and URL.
> 
> However I wondered if it would be more appropriate to add them to the group
> record (which is the format information).
> 
> For most items the distinction is pretty academic, however if anyone has
> strong feelings in any direction I'd love to hear them.
> 
> Cheers
> Rachel
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