[Koha] Marc Field 008?

[Paul POULAIN]

Baljkas Family a écrit :

>>We have a doubt about field 008: Does Koha uses it? How is
>>filled?
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>When I last asked about this recently, I was told that Koha doesn't use the 008.
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>I am not sure how it would be filled automatically, or even if that is what Koha tries to do with it. Otherwise, I think you'd have to create a coding sequence that would suffice for your library's needs and meet at least the minimum requirements (008 positions 6, 7-10, 11-14, 15-17, 35-37, 38 and 39).
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>Properly, a cataloguer should be coding the 008 field *individually for each MARC record*, since the elements that constitute the 008 can only be coded accurately from inspection of the item being described.
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An other possibility, implying some coding that could be added to 
official Koha : develop a plugin to do it automatically.
ESMP in France has developped plugins for 1xx fields, that also have 
many calculated bytes. Feel free to copy them (it's in value_builder 
directory of Koha) and modify for 008.

The 210 and 215 plugins may also be useful to see how to find a value in 
the MARC editor (and thus automatically suggest something) : the 210 
searches for the ISBN, that is in 010 field. The 215 searches for ISBN 
(010) and editor (210) to build the list of possible collections.

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Paul POULAIN
Consultant indépendant en logiciels libres
responsable francophone de koha (SIGB libre http://www.koha-fr.org)