[Koha] Let Unimarc and USmarc work together

[Chris Cormack]

Just a note Koha supports MARC21, UNIMARC and NORMARC. But like Zeno says
supporting records of all three (and more) in one installation would be a
decent amount of work. And therefore quite unlikely to be done unless
someone is willing to fund the work.

Chris
On Apr 28, 2012 8:58 PM, <tajoli at cilea.it> wrote:

> Hi Peter
>
> >Oggetto: [Koha] Let Unimarc and USmarc work together
> >
> >Dear developer,
> >           Koha is a wonderful library system. The current version just
> allows to choose either UNIMARC or USMARC.
> > How can let Koha support to choose both UNIMARC and USMARC? I hope the
> future version can let more option on marc framework.
>
> In the near future Koha will support better the two standard.
> You can help on this bug for this topic:
> http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=6536
>
> But it is impossible to plan now to support records in both UNIMARC and
> MARC21 format together in the same installation.
> For example tag 100 has a specific meaning (Main Author as persone) in
> MARC21 and a very different in UNIMAC (GENERAL PROCESSING DATA, as 008 in
> MARC21).
>
> In theory it is possible but it is very huge change and non ILS has now
> this feature (thing about Evergreen, Aleph500, Millennium, etc.).
>
> Bye
> Zeno Tajoli
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