Re: [Koha-devel] Clarification of jargon & tidying up
* what is "Biblio"? A bibliographic record? * What do "biblionumber" and "biblioitemnumber" refer to?
Biblionumber refers to the unique identification number of a record in the biblio table in the database. This table contains the most 'general' information about a particular title: title, author. biblioitemnumber *might* refer to the id number of a record in the biblioitems table, which contains the next level of information: isbn, publication year, number of pages. It *could* also refer to 'biblio item number,' which would refer to the id of a record in the items table-- where the last level of detail is kept, with barcode number, branch code, etc. It can be very confusing!
A slightly more labor intensive change would be to use more CSS for layout in the future versions
There are CSS-based templates for OPAC. I'm not sure about intranet.
The NPL intranet templates for version 2.0 are CSS-based. There are also new CSS-based templates for the latest pre- release version, developed by Paul and replacing the current default templates. -- Owen
Owen Leonard a écrit :
* what is "Biblio"? A bibliographic record? * What do "biblionumber" and "biblioitemnumber" refer to?
Biblionumber refers to the unique identification number of a record in the biblio table in the database. This table contains the most 'general' information about a particular title: title, author. biblioitemnumber *might* refer to the id number of a record in the biblioitems table, which contains the next level of information: isbn, publication year, number of pages. It *could* also refer to 'biblio item number,' which would refer to the id of a record in the items table-- where the last level of detail is kept, with barcode number, branch code, etc. It can be very confusing!
Some history here : Katipo & HLT, when developping the 1st version of Koha defined 3 level for a given "book". The biblio, the biblioitem, the item. * The biblio : it's what is unmovable. Like the title & the author. For example "les fleurs du mal" from "Baudelaire" * The bibliotem : it's what changes on various edition. For example "Edition 1960, in 20x10cm size" and "edition 1980, in pocket size". * The item : it's what refers to the "real" item you have. For example, you have 2 items for the biblio "les fleurs du mal, edition 1960, 20x10cm" : one acquired in 1990, page 10 missing, barcode 1234, and one acquired in 2001, barcode 4321. HOWEVER : in MARC, the 3 level DOES NOT EXIST. There are only 2 : the biblio level and the item level. So, in 2.0 and later versions, biblio & biblioitems ARE MERGED. There is a 1-1 relation between both. In fact the biblioitems table could disappear, but nobody taked care of this until then. (look at DB schema, DL from www.koha.org/wiki)
A slightly more labor intensive change would be to use more CSS for layout in the future versions
There are CSS-based templates for OPAC. I'm not sure about intranet.
The NPL intranet templates for version 2.0 are CSS-based. There are also new CSS-based templates for the latest pre- release version, developed by Paul and replacing the current default templates.
Right for OPAC. In intranet, the "default" templates in the 2.2 version will be 90% css based. Only a few silly html code will remain. It's simple CSS however. -- Paul POULAIN Consultant indépendant en logiciels libres responsable francophone de koha (SIGB libre http://www.koha-fr.org)
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