[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 #18 from Marcel de Rooy <m.de.rooy at rijksmuseum.nl> ---
(In reply to David Cook from comment #17)
> 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).

Yes, I think that creation time works best.

> 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?

Just as the biblionumber the persistent identifier belongs/points to a
conceptual thing, not talking about where we store it. This thing can indeed be
described in MARCXML, RDF etc. What would be wrong about showing the PID in
such views just like we often include biblionumber? Finally, storing it in a
MARC field (just as many save biblionumber in 001) or not (only exporting or
displaying it) is an implementation thing/technical optimization?

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