[Koha-devel] Re: [Koha-announce] address@hidden continues

[Paul POULAIN]

Christopher Brown-Syed a écrit :

> One suggestion which arose from both of these experiences was that a
> more typical MARC table be included in the generic Koha parameters. A
> "cheat sheet" of "most frequently used" MARC tags was procured from the
> campus libraries, and we would be happy to share the specs.For instance,
> the publisher field designations currently include only the date ($c),
> not the place and publisher fields of the MARC 260 tag. This is
> confusing for newbies to MARC. The Library of Congress does publish a
> compact MARC brochure for about $10, but we think it might help to turn
> on the most frequently used tags and subfields from the get-go. 
>  
good news.

I'll add something : in the 2.2 installer, there is a new feature that 
the library can use (during install stage only) to select various files 
to "import" into it's default database to get a 100% working Koha and 
avoid lot of "standard tweakings".
In french UNIMARC, for example, we already hare the file for 
"cataloguing monography", one for "cataloguing electronic document", one 
for "french stopwords"... We may even have UNIMARC authority files.

Feel free to dump marc_*_structure tables, send them to me with some 
comments (in what are they different from default 2.0.0 MARC21 
parameters setup ?).
I'll try to add them to official 2.2 release.

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