Hello Alexander, >> this is an example of the default values of Invenio not being Marc21 >> compliant. > > Right. And then these are bad defaults. > >> I've complained about this a few times, and I should have >> filled a task about those defaults, and sent a few patches, although I >> haven't yet ;-(.
The reasons why I haven't done it myself, besides the lack-of-time issue (bad excuse) are that on my instances I have a mix of better-than-default values and local ones; I don't have (or I don't have the resources to have) a reasonably recent Invenio instance running anywhere (we are stilll at 0.99.1), so I'd be patching something old; and, even with those restrictions, when I tried, I found those example records (modules/miscutil/sql/tabfill.sql) and the testing infrastructure that I didn't know how to handle. So I feel overwhelmed each time I try ;-( But idealy one should be able to go, for example, to http://www.archive.org/details/ol_data and get and load all University of Toronto Library catalog in the local Invenio and use it, maybe just adjusting some valid collection field value. Now it is not the case. And it is a pity, because after the suitable adjustments, Invenio is very able to handle them. It is even possible to have something like authority records in it (at least we have them more-or-less working at http://traces.uab.cat/). Best regards, Ferran
