On Wed, 22 Aug 2012, Fischer, Katrin wrote:
Hi Francis,
I would recommend against changing the zebra configuration and mapping
of fields. It will most likely cause you some problems later on like
keeping your customizations on every update and making more changes as
new features get build on the data in those fields.
Normally you would store the year in 2 fields, in 260$c you are more flexible. Data here
can contain something like "c2012" - alphanumerical.
In 008 you normally store a normalized year in 4 numbers. This will be used by
Koha for features like the date range search in advanced search.
I am not sure how MarcEdit can do that, as I am only using the basic features,
but maybe someone else can help you here.
Hope this makes sense,
Katrin
Hi Katrin, Thank you for your observations. And, thanks to all the others
who been providing very useful tips to my original posting. I, now, have a
better understanding of the field 008 particularly its positions 07-10.
I'm still very much in the testing phase. Will take a decision about
using the 008 field once I'm ready for the production system.
Best, Francis
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Von: koha-boun...@lists.katipo.co.nz im Auftrag von Savitra Sirohi
Gesendet: Mi 22.08.2012 06:24
An: fr...@library.iisc.ernet.in
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Betreff: Re: [Koha] Completeness of records for importing
Francis, just want to share with you what we do - which is to ignore 008.
We just change zebra configuration to use 260c instead of 008 where required.
On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 9:36 AM, <fr...@library.iisc.ernet.in> wrote:
On Tue, 21 Aug 2012, Paul wrote:
At 02:29 PM 8/21/2012 +0530, fr...@library.iisc.ernet.in wrote:
[snip]
Field 008 has been generated by the MarcEdit tool. Should it be
substituted with 260$c using the same tool? I did look up the LoC site to
have a better understanding of the field 008. It says character position
07-10 as Date1. Could you please let me know as to what does 'Date1' refer
to?
"Date 1/beginning date of publication" -- pls see
<http://www.loc.gov/marc/umb/um07to10.html#part10> -- for books (rather than
serials, which can also have an "ending date of publication") this date is
most often the same as 260$c (for a full discussion of 260$c and 260$g, see
<http://www.loc.gov/marc/bibliographic/bd260.html>.)
Paul
Thank you, Paul, for the clarification and also for the pointers. Its still
not clear to me as to how should the value of 260$c be assigned to the
positions 7-10 of field 008?
Thanks and regards, Francis
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