[Koha-devel] What is biblioitemnumber for?

[Tomas Cohen Arazi]

Great info, Paul!

We now removed the marc/marcxml columns from biblioitems too, so it makes
more sense to merge them.

El lun., 19 nov. 2018 a las 6:02, Paul Poulain (<paul.poulain at biblibre.com>)
escribió:

> <wise-old-man mode ON>
>
> Koha v1.x has no MARC support. In fact, it was the first FRBR compliant
> software ever, long before FRBR exist... (who says Open Source is not
> innovative :D )
>
> More explanation: in Koha v1, you had to enter a minimal biblio
> description (title, author(s), subject(s)) THEN one or more expression
> of the work (one large print, one readed book, one pocket, ...), THEN
> the different items. Very efficient and handy.
>
> When I wrote the MARC code, I had to break this 3 level management (MARC
> has only 2 levels, biblio and items).
>
> In Koha 2.0, you had the option to stay "basic" of "marc" cataloguing.
> It has been removed in Koha ??? (2.2 or 3.0 ?), only MARC cataloguing
> remained.
>
> At this time biblioitems table became useless/should have been merged,
> but no one coded/hacked it. But yes, it can be removed (unless we want
> to keep it for future advanced support of FRBR :D )
>
> <wise-old-man mode OFF>
>
>
> Le 17/11/2018 à 20:40, Barton Chittenden a écrit :
> > Just out of curiosity, why does biblioitemnumber exist? There should
> > be a one-to-one relationship between biblio records and biblioitem
> > records ... so why not use biblionumber as the primary key for
> > biblioitems?
> >
> > --Barton
>
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