https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=25603 --- Comment #3 from David Cook <dcook@prosentient.com.au> --- (In reply to Magnus Enger from comment #0)
Koha itself does not care too much about these fields, but sometimes they are used when importing/syncing in records from external sources, and then it can be work intensive to match on WHERE ExtractValue( metadata,\'//controlfield[@tag="001"]\' ). This would be much easier if the 001 and 003 fields from the record had their own database columns we could match on.
Similar to: Bug 11529 - Add subtitle, medium and part fields to biblio table
I'm trying to wrap my head around how we'd do this in practice. In theory, Koha should be resetting the 001 and 003, but it doesn't do that currently. I guess you'd be relying on that? Trying to match off the original 001 and 003 to improve the ease of matching records from external sources. I can see the logic there for sure. Personally, I wish that we'd move the 001 and 003 to the 035 during import, although that would present its own matching problems, plus the 035 is a repeatable field. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes. You are the assignee for the bug.