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, <taj...@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 > _______________________________________________ > Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org > Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz > http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha > _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
