Summary: | Make it possible to import MARC21 authorities from VIAF into Koha | ||
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Product: | Koha | Reporter: | Magnus Enger <magnus> |
Component: | MARC Authority data support | Assignee: | Indranil Das Gupta <indradg> |
Status: | NEW --- | QA Contact: | Testopia <testopia> |
Severity: | enhancement | ||
Priority: | P5 - low | CC: | bargioni, black23, flyingendpaper, indradg, josef.moravec, marjorie.barry-vila, verolencinas, veron |
Version: | Main | ||
Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | All | ||
GIT URL: | Change sponsored?: | --- | |
Patch complexity: | --- | Documentation contact: | |
Documentation submission: | Text to go in the release notes: | ||
Version(s) released in: | Circulation function: |
Description
Magnus Enger
2012-11-13 12:14:59 UTC
The import process could save the VIAF ID, and eventually other IDs from (national) libraries whose records compose the VIAF record. IDs can be used in linked open data construction, e.g. in triples with owl:sameAs. In my library, we store the VIAF ID in auth tag 024. This could be the default of a syspref. Here is an example: <datafield tag="024" ind1="7" ind2=" "> <subfield code="2">viaf</subfield> <subfield code="a">58552590</subfield> </datafield> Unfortunately this proposal has not been receiving much support. I think a lot of libraries in countries without a strong national authority file accessible through Z39.50 could benefit from this enhancement. |