[Koha] z3950 and marc_breeding

[Paul POULAIN]

Marco Vaninetti a écrit :

>The encoding I use  is UNIMARC, so I'm asking if someone of the french koha 
>users can post the parameters of a french z3950 server and a title of a book 
>that I can find in it,  just to test my Koha configuration.
>
Ok for your encoding.
But are your biblio marc structure also in UNIMARC (= means you have all 
labels in french)
Otherwise, here's what happends :
* Koha retrieves a biblio from your z3950 server
* He tries to find isbn & title & author. BUT in MARC21, title is in 
245, and in UNIMARC, it's in 200 !!! (fortunatly, isbn is in the same field)

So, the "title" you see is the "title" in a MARC21 tag. And the 
effective title is in the UNIMARC one !!!

The "encoding" is just for character encoding ( managemenet of é, à ...) 
: some servers provide UNIMARC biblios, but with a MARC21 encoding (i 
don't know if there is MARC21 servers that provides biblios with an 
UNIMARC encoding)

It also means you CANNOT retrieve a MARC biblio from a server with a 
different MARC flavour than yours : technically, it's there, but Koha 
can do nothing with it.
You can be angry, but not against Koha team : against ppl that defined 2 
technically-same-but-functionnaly-completly-different "standards"...

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