[Koha-bugs] [Bug 18265] Should biblio_metadata.biblionumber be biblioitemnumber instead?

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https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=18265

--- Comment #17 from Marcel de Rooy <m.de.rooy at 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.

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