[Koha-bugs] [Bug 27121] Merge items

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https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=27121

--- Comment #2 from Séverine Queune <severine.queune at bulac.fr> ---
Hi Katrin!

Here are two cases we've got at BULAC.

1/ A lot of our collections are still on card catalog only.
Some of my colleagues are working on cataloging them : they work on SUDOC (the
French collective catalogue for Higher Educational and Research libraries) and
each night, items and biblios enter Koha with unique identifiers linking to
SUDOC ('ppn' for biblios and 'epn' for items).
Sometimes, for various reasons, some of the items were quickly and locally
created in Koha, because it was important to have them there to follow a
specific circuit (external loan for exhibition, etc.), and we regularly find
duplicates.
The problem is that most of the case concerns our old and precious collections
that have change of callnumber so we've got: 
- a local item with the new callnumber and informations about some physical
peculiarities we noticed
- an item created in SUDOC with the old (and now wrong) callnumber and a unique
'epn'
The idea was to have a tool, like it exists for biblios, to select the 2 items
and to check wich datas we want to keep from each items, in the present case
all the datas of the local item + the epn for the SUDOC item.

2/ We had a problem during the initial loading of the datas in Koha for
subscriptions.
The first load in March 2011 created items with callnumber and serial history
only.
The second load in May 2011 creates duplicates with callnumber and all the
datas about origin of the collection and the 'epn', but no serial history.
We still have about 1800 identified duplicates to manually merge...

I attach an exemple of a duplicates for subscription linked to items with, in
green, the datas we want to keep from form each item.

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