User manual

Chapter 5
Here are some notes on frameworks:
While installing Koha you can choose to install a set of frameworks for
commonly used material types
New frameworks can be created by modelling them on existing ones
Frameworks can be edited or deleted at any time
The default framework has a broad set of fields and can be used for material
that doesn't fit into any other framework
Frameworks control how a catalog record is entered and displayed in the
cataloging screens
Frameworks have no impact on records that are imported via Koha's import
or Z39.50 copy cataloging tools
With MARC frameworks, for each type of material, we can define what fields and
subfields are:
Available for data entry
Mandatory
To control data entry, we can also bring some of these fields or subfields under:
Authority Control
Authorized Values Control
Authority Control
Data entry into bibliographic fields can be controlled using Authority Control.
Bibliographic cataloguers cannot enter text in fields under Authority Control; they
can only pick values from the list of authority records.
This text from Wikipedia
(http: / /en. wikipedia .org /wiki /Authority_control)
describes the purpose of authority control well:
Authority control fulfils two important functions.
First, it enables catalogers to disambiguate items with similar or identical headings.
For example, two authors who happen to have published under the same name can be
distinguished from each other by adding middle initials, birth and /or death (or flourished, if
these are unknown) dates, or a descriptive epithet to the heading of one (or both) authors.