[Koha-bugs] [Bug 18265] Followup to Bug 17196. deletedbiblio_metadata is not used. biblioitemnumber was forgotten

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--- Comment #13 from Olli-Antti Kivilahti <olli-antti.kivilahti at jns.fi> ---
(In reply to Marcel de Rooy from comment #10)
> (In reply to Olli-Antti Kivilahti from comment #9)
> > Do you mean that biblio- and biblioitems-tables should be merged?
> > 
> > Then those need to be separated again when we are moving to FRBR.
> > 
> > This is one fundamentally good architectural design decision in Koha. Don't
> > break it.
> 
> A design decision that has not been implemented, might not be a good one
> after all..

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.

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