https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=15772 Thomas Dukleth <td-koha-bugs@agogme.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |td-koha-bugs@agogme.com --- Comment #3 from Thomas Dukleth <td-koha-bugs@agogme.com> --- Normalising ISBNs to a single value which at least provides for normalisation from ISBN 13 would be an improvement but misses an important issue especially where an ISBN based value is used for too much in Koha. The ISBN 10 vs ISBN 13 problem touches on a larger issue. Normalising ISBNs to single value misses how ISBNs are used in the real world where they are poor as bibliographic identifiers because they are not unique identifiers and treating them as such can only lead to problems. ISBNs should be a list not a single value. See the multiple ISBN normalisation examples sections in both the problems and remedies in bug #3092 which was closed for age and for needing decomposition into smaller bugs. Other complications to non-uniqueness which I may have omitted in bug #3092 include the bad practise of some important publishers reusing old ISBNs for completely different titles at a later time after the formerly applied title has gone out of print. We should also be adding other identifiers to appropriate lists for appropriate functions for which ISBNs are especially under-inclusive as any kind of identifier such as material for which ISBNs are seldom or never assigned. If considering at least the larger problem of replacing a string by a list, the parallel code method described in bug #3092 for how to approach fixing such deeply embedded bugs without breaking everything. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.