[Koha] Some questions on Koha and MARC

[MJ Ray]

On 2004-08-02 00:55:04 +0100 Steven F. Baljkas 
<baljkas at mb.sympatico.ca> wrote:

> * Question 1: For his sake and for the sake of others, if I and/or
> interested others 'fix' what is available in the test version online, 
> would
> it be possible for him/others to simply download it somehow?

You need to mysql dump the tables marc_subfield_structure and 
marc_tag_structure to a file - if someone is willing to give me data 
files that they'll put their name on as accurate, I'll add them to the 
2.0.x distribution as options (or replacements if told by enough 
people).

> * Question 2: What is the relationship of the MARC record data within 
> Koha?

Blue?

> [Specifically, for the moment] what does Koha actually do with the
> information in the fixed-length fields if anything?

Remind me what fixed-length fields are: the header? IIRC (and it's 
been a while), koha ignores them.

> (BTW the current connection in the 003 test drive is wrong according 
> to
> what I was taught/have seen).

What would be correct?

> [...] [How does Koha deal with fields that can
> repeat in MARC, for 2 common examples, 500 notes and 650 subject 
> headings?]

I think it has only uses the first at the moment, IIRC. (Again, it's 
been a while.)

> * Question 3: What is the correspondence between the MARC structure 
> and the
> actual records displayed in the Koha OPAC?

I think this is again governed by the structure tables mentioned 
above, as is Q4. The search reporter is a little unsophisticated in 
2.0.x. I hope that it's being improved in 2.1.x along with the 
"google-style" searcher, but I'm not working on that (too busy!).

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