On Sat, Oct 01, 2005 at 08:57:37AM +1200, Chris Cormack wrote:
If you have a MARC record that contains multiple record types, you should get 1 biblio -> multiple biblioitems -> multiple items.
I think this is how UNIMARC is handled, but not MARC21. When bulkimporting MARC21 records, there is 1 biblio, 1 biblioitem, multiple items (and the biblio number and biblioitemnumber are the same for the initial import). How should we handle the (repeatable) 852 fields in a record when they contain some biblioitem-level stuff and some item-level stuff (like barcode). While we're on the topic: Chris's original db design (biblio->biblioitem->item) comes very close to the (fairly) new Functional Requiremente for Bibliographic Records (FRBR) (http://www.oclc.org/research/projects/frbr/default.htm). Looking forward, are we aiming to come closer to FRBR or are we going to stick with the original design and fix MARC21 support to use that design? Any opinions? Cheers, -- Joshua Ferraro VENDOR SERVICES FOR OPEN-SOURCE SOFTWARE President, Technology migration, training, maintenance, support LibLime Featuring Koha Open-Source ILS jmf@liblime.com |Full Demos at http://liblime.com/koha |1(888)KohaILS