Assess the work for supporting the UNIMARC Bibliographic format in FOLIO

Current situation or problem: Some libraries in Europe use the UNIMARC format for their bibliographic data. FOLIO currently supports MARC-21, but not other formats (yet). Analysis is needed to determine what changes would be needed in various modules to support UNIMARC.

In scope

• Review the UNIMARC format in detail
• Determine which record types need to be supported (only Bibliographic, or also Holdings and/or Authorities?)
• Outline the impact on the following apps
  • Data Import (SRS storage, DI profiles, DI workflows)
  • Data Export
  • Inventory (UNIMARC-to-Instance mapping)
  • quickMARC
  • OAI-PMH endpoint
  • EDGE RTAC (if taken from the bib record)
  • Authorities
  • Record import from z39.50 sources (Inventory single record imprort)
  • z39.50 server
• Draft features to implement support in the various apps
• Discuss and coordinate with the various POs

Out of scope

• Implementing support for UNIMARC; this feature is only for analysis and planning, NOT implementation

Use case(s)

• Same use cases as for MARC-21, except based on UNIMARC source records

Proposed solution/stories

• TBD

Links to additional info

• https://www.ifla.org/publications/unimarc-formats-and-related-documentation

Questions

• Which libraries is this a blocker for?

Affected POs: Ann-Marie Breaux Magda Zacharska Charlotte Whitt Khalilah Gambrell

Interested parties: Rui Francisco