[Koha-bugs] [Bug 25233] Staff XSLT material type label "Book" should be "Text"

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https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=25233

--- Comment #14 from David Cook <dcook at prosentient.com.au> ---
For what it's worth, I'm the one who opened the report to change "Book" to
"Text" for the OPAC back in 2013:
https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=10562. I think Owen
wrote his patch in 2018 and it got pushed in 2019. 

Oh... but something that we're not considering is the Leader/07 and that's
something that is obviated by
https://www.oclc.org/bibformats/en/fixedfield/type.html. 

In the OCLC example, they're choosing "Books" with a Leader/07 of a,c,d,m and
"Continuing Resources" with a Leader/07 of b, i, s.

If we look at the patch, the XSLT does actually generate a label based on both
Leader/06 and Leader/07, Koha is saying "Book/Text" for Leader/07 of c,d,m...
"Continuing resource" for Leader/07 of i, s... "Article" for Leader/07 of "a"
or "b". 

I don't think we considered the Leader/07 with the Leader/06 when I originally
raised the issue in Bugzilla back in 2013...

It's tricky because OCLC's and Koha's use of the Leader/07 with the Leader/06
is still a bit problematic. For instance, a Leader/06 of "a" and Leader/07 of
"a" would be classed by OCLC as a Book and by Koha as an Article, but it could
actually be a "Book Chapter".

The MARC standard itself is pretty problematic, especially when it comes to
fixed field data (ie trying to put too much information into too small a
space).

I mean that's why we have fields like 
https://www.loc.gov/marc/bibliographic/bd336.html
https://www.loc.gov/marc/bibliographic/bd337.html
https://www.loc.gov/marc/bibliographic/bd338.html

It seems to me the goals of the cataloguer are at odds with the goals of the
user-facing library.

I still think "Text" is probably the best compromise for a label, but I can
understand opposition to that. 

For what it's worth, so long as it's consistent across the staff client and
OPAC, I don't care too much. Since it's in the XSLT, it is fairly easy to
customize.

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