I love the mapping feature of this module! :) But it's missing something essential for me.

My collection has a lot of foreign language text, in which the original characters are presented in 880.

When I use MARC, the relevant portions look like this:

245 0 880-01
245 a Shi jie shi ping de :
245 b ba wo zhe ge qu shi zai 21 shi ji cai you jing zheng li /
245 c Tangmasi Foliman ; Yang Zhenfu, Pan Xun yi = The world is flat / Thomas L. Friedman.
260 0 880-02
260 a Taibei Shi :
260 b Ya yan wen hua chu ban you xian gong si,
260 c 2005.

880 0 245-01
880 a 世界是平的 :
880 b 把握這個趨勢在21世紀才有競爭力 /
880 c 湯馬斯・佛里曼 ; 楊振富, 潘勛譯 = The world is flat / Thomas L. Friedman.
880 0 260-02
880 a 台北市 :
880 b 雅言文化出版股份有限公司,
880 c 2005.

Essentially, they are paired via the 880. Can this included in the mapping?

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aaustin commented

Sorry for the delay. I have been thinking about this. The Drupal 5 version had a way to customize the fields available for mapping. The whole Drupal 5 module suffered from being quite overcomplicated and I tried to really pare it down with the newest version. But I am thinking that it is probably necessary to bring back the custom fields for mapping.

Specifically, for your situation though: would you like 880 0, a, b and c all to be choices in the drop down or would you like to concatenate them somehow?

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Anonymous (not verified) commented

No problem, thanks for looking at this.

I would like them to be treated the same way as the regular fields that they are alternating for. In the example I gave, there are actually 2 sets of 880, each an alternative to a different regular MARC field:

Set 01, as the alternative representation to the regular 245 field.

880 0 245-01
880 a 世界是平的 :
880 b 把握這個趨勢在21世紀才有競爭力 /
880 c 湯馬斯・佛里曼 ; 楊振富, 潘勛譯 = The world is flat / Thomas L. Friedman.

Set 02, as the alternative representation to the regular 260 field.

880 0 260-02
880 a 台北市 :
880 b 雅言文化出版股份有限公司,
880 c 2005.

880s can be alternatives for 490, 650, 630, 700, 830, etc. So if there's an 880-245, I would like the a, b, and c to be treated the same way as the regular 245. The 880-260 the same way as 260.

I hope I'm making sense. MARC pains me in many ways.