[Koha-bugs] [Bug 24544] Add a script for inserting persistent identifiers to MARC records

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https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=24544

--- Comment #17 from David Cook <dcook at prosentient.com.au> ---
(In reply to Marcel de Rooy from comment #15)
> What is the right moment for a biblio record to receive a persistent
> identifier btw? Thinking about local procedures around acquisition etc.
> 
> The choice in this patch set is still influenced by the partial/meta
> resolving (see former comments). A replace by Z3950/SRU might result in two
> PIDs in the authoritative table and one local copy (the newest) in Koha.

That's an interesting question. In my mind, a biblionumber represents a
conceptual metadata entity. While the actual metadata can change, that entity
is tied to the point in time that the biblionumber is created. While we use the
MySQL/MariaDB autonumber for that at the moment, in theory we could use a UUID
or some other generated number (like we do for the item barcode rather than the
item number).

For me, the MARCXML isn't the bibliographic record, but rather a view of it. In
the future, that bibliographic record might have a RDF/XML view as well.
They're both describing the same bibliographic entity, and that entity is the
thing that should have the PID. After all, HTML, MARCXML, RDF/XML, they're just
different content types available via content negotiation, right?

The replacement by Z3950/SRU is interesting. If we had versioned records, it
might make sense to have a PID per version I suppose...

It could be interesting to see how DSpace manages this.

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