[Koha] include dummy 'records' as templates?

[Stephen Hedges]

I have to agree with Steven -- dummy records in this context would be a
good idea:

Steven F. Baljkas said:
> Sunday, April 18, 2004    15:38 CDT
<snip>
> I am not sure what Ernesto would like, and I shan't try to speak for him.
> However, for many cataloguing workers, exactly how the template for a
> record
> works probably doesn't matter. What does matter is that it have/indicate
> the
> required fields AND that, in as many cases as possible, predetermined
> information be there complete at the start.
>
> So, for example, if you were cataloguing kit materials (fairly common in
> many schools), you'll probably have at least 1 007 tag as well as the
> standard 008 tag. If your school regularly had kit items with a CD-ROM,
> you
> would set the value in 007 to whatever we are calling electronic resources
> today. ;-) The 008 might be set by default for book material, with
> defaults
> for illustrative matter, audience, indexing, language, etc.
>
> For all templates, you would want to have the 245 $h with the GMD
> pre-entered. Other fields that were more or less specific to various
> formats
> would be entered, e.g. 856 tag for live web links to continuing resources
> like web pages. Any standardised notes for specific materials would be
> part
> of the template, too, e.g. 538 tags with system information for electronic
> resources.
>
> Ideally, you would probably won't to allow for templates to be editable
> according to the individual library's preferences and needs, although a
> starting set based on the clear standard of the GMDs would not be a bad
> place to start.

I've submitted a 'bug' report for this enhancement
(http://bugs.koha.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=769).

-- 
Stephen Hedges
Skemotah Solutions, USA
www.skemotah.com  --  shedges at skemotah.com