On 08.07.2013 21:35, Maungu Oware wrote: Hi!
Is there a way to label marc codes in Invenio so that the field names are displayed instead of marc codes in human view in the record editor ? I realize that human view helps for the standard marc codes but what if there are custom codes existing, e.g I use *250__a* to denote the *continent* a publication originated from. It would help if users saw continent instead of 250__a in the record editor.
Besides that it might be indeed interesting to learn how to configure the record editor some point that might be helpful for you here. If you're using FireFox you probably might want to add a bookmark like this: Name : m: MARC 21 Field Description URL : http://www.loc.gov/marc/bibliographic/bd%s.html Keyword: m This allows you to just type m 250 in your URL bar to get the definition of Marc 250. For Authority definitions one might use Name : ad: MARC 21 Authority Field Description URL : http://www.loc.gov/marc/authority/ad%s.html Keyword: ad Having used m 250 as above shows you that Marc 250 a might /not/ be a good idea to store the originating continent. Simply cause it has a defined meaning in Marc, being the edition statement. (Ie. something like "2nd enlarged edition". Think of exporting your data to whatever format you'd always need to take care of your "house rule" for this. E.g. 250__a would go to bibtex edition and also be exposed to some Dublin Core.) You might run into trouble if you "missuse" predefined fields, especially if, at any point of your project, you want to interchange data, but also if you want to make them visible to others. I think that's what it's all about ;) Thus I'd strongly suggest to stick to Marc as defined at LoC as much as possible. So 260__e might be a better place for your information, though it is meant for the city, I wouldn't missuse it eiter. (Except you with something like "Berlin, Germany, Europe" though I think this is not nice at all.) In your mentioned case I see some ways to handle this in a bit a cleaner way. - Marc 751: "Added Entry-Geographic Name". If I check the fields description some coding like $a for the continent, $e for the "relationship of geographic name and described item" sounds almost to the point of what you want to describe here. I'd opt for a $0/$2 like describe in the next paragraph. E.g. 751__$a Africa $e Publishing Continent $0 COP:(YourOrg)12345 $2 ContinetOfProdcution (Even gives nice simple output formatting for this.) - General keywording (similar to the just mentioned), in your case something like Marc 653. If you check out it is "Subject Added Entry-Geographic Name" which sounds good, however does not reflect on "production continent of the entry". Therefore, I'd use it in conjunction with the second indicator 7. E.g. like 653_7 $2ContinetOfProdcution $aAfrica $0 COP:(YourOrg)12345 defining a vocabulary "ContinentOfProduction" (a better name would be good) a literal meaning in $a, and, as names are usually a difficult entity, I'd go with an identfier in $0 and also some authority record. We have a similar usecase for our grants hierarchy (e.g. http://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/92363 and one of the vocabulary authority records http://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/92148) BTW: keywording is a quite general and clean excuse to add data to a record for searching and display that doesn't fit into Marc otherwise. Especially in conjunction with the _7 indicators it allows for almost all your needs as ther're specific fields for Subject, People, Geography and so on. cf. http://www.loc.gov/marc/bibliographic/bd6xx.html In case of emergency you could even opt for 69x, but I'd do that only if I have a very good reason not to put it otherwise. "Local usage" usually means: not interachangeable easily (simply cause another instance doen't know about it automatically). - Collections, ie. 980__a which is a bit more the "invenio way". Though I'd be a bit careful to define too many of those guys, as your webcoll will take it's time. (Having some 400 on JuSER I can tell ;) - If all else breaks: custom extensions. In Marc they live in 9xx fields. HTH :) -- Kind regards, Alexander Wagner Subject Specialist Central Library 52425 Juelich mail : [email protected] phone: +49 2461 61-1586 Fax : +49 2461 61-6103 www.fz-juelich.de/zb/DE/zb-fi ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH 52425 Juelich Sitz der Gesellschaft: Juelich Eingetragen im Handelsregister des Amtsgerichts Dueren Nr. HR B 3498 Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats: MinDir Dr. Karl Eugen Huthmacher Geschaeftsfuehrung: Prof. Dr. Achim Bachem (Vorsitzender), Karsten Beneke (stellv. Vorsitzender), Prof. Dr.-Ing. Harald Bolt, Prof. Dr. Sebastian M. Schmidt ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Das Forschungszentrum oeffnet seine Tueren am Sonntag, 29. September, von 10:00 bis 17:00 Uhr: http://www.tagderneugier.de
