[Koha] Adapting MARC frameworks and deleting unneeded tags

[Donna Bachowski]

Donna Bachowski <donna at bywatersolutions.com>
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Hello Aida!

If you are sure you will never be importing records that would have those
tags, then yes, go ahead and delete them!  We do custom frameworks a lot
for special projects like you mention, and usually delete the extraneous
fields.

If you would like to use it, you can access here
https://drive.google.com/file/d/196CGH2J_6_UtLUZf7zlo0sybT66NrVxV/view?usp=sharing
a framework that we worked with a library to create for their
thesis/dissertations.
You can download the framework file as .csv, then import it into a new
framework.

The only concern with deleting fields from a framework is that if you
import a record that has, for example, an 036, and the framework you are
importing the file into does not have that field then the data is lost.
But with the process you are describing, I don't see any issues with
deleting certain fields.

Best,
Donna
Donna Bachowski, MLS
Director of Implementations
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On Wed, Mar 15, 2023 at 9:09 AM library at ssst.edu.ba <library at ssst.edu.ba>
wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> Today I have another question for you regarding MARC frameworks and
> cataloging different items. While I wait for our IT to export the cataloged
> textbooks from our current system, I've been refreshing my knowledge on
> UNIMARC, going through the exported theses (2008-2018; for later ones I
> don't have an exported csv file yet) and trying to work out how best to
> adapt the MARC framework so they can be imported. I've also been looking up
> the mail archive to see how others have dealth with cataloging theses - if
> any of you could share your practice I'd be grateful!
>
> I downloaded the Books, Booklets, Workbooks framework I adapted from the
> Default framework, and in going through the tags I saw there were many I
> would never use; would these be OK to delete? I mean tags such as 20
> Fingerprint Identifier, 21 Legal Deposit Number, or 36 Music Incipit, and
> others. For the eventual Theses framework, I also would not need tags such
> as 10 International Standard Book Number (ISBN) or 11 International
> Standard Serial Number (ISSN) and many other, but would need a tag where I
> could list the student mentor for that particular thesis. I'd also like to
> add a Serial publications framework.
>
> Would I actually be safe in deleting these tags, or is there a better way
> to handle them? In my earlier efforts to add Z39.50 servers, I tested
> adding a title I had in hand, but I am being prevented from saving it since
> some of the tags were blank upon import and I wasn't sure how to fill them
> out.
>
>
> Best regards
>
> Aida Đikić
>
>
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