https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=18265 --- Comment #17 from Marcel de Rooy <m.de.rooy@rijksmuseum.nl> --- (In reply to Olli-Antti Kivilahti from comment #13)
The issues with (MA)chine (R)eadable (C)ard catalogues are aknowledged for decades. Probably even then when the format was being discussed.
Now the official formats for implementing FRBR (RDA -> Bibframe) are at the door and we (Finland) are already migrating to RDA this year. Actually I think we officially did and new records are only available in RDA as we speak. Looking forward to Bibframe in the near future.
Structuring the DB to model the separation of work from manifestation is fundamentally important to achieve moving Koha to the future.
Removing this distinction will turn us back 30 years.
I have already suffered from the awkwardness caused by this divide (biblio-biblioitems) for many years with Koha, but the problem is not with DB but the internal API. Better stick to it now, since it is the foothold for pushing us forward. Naturally the current implementation is not good enough, but it is better than nothing. Otherwise we need to reinvent this wheel.
The current implementation of biblio-biblioitems is very poor. I agree with your argument that we should look to the future, allowing for work, manifestation, etc. Koha has not been designed with that in mind. Just books-items. So yes, it will need (a lot of) attention. But biblio-biblioitems is no good foundation. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.