[Koha-devel] What is biblioitemnumber for?

Ere Maijala ere.maijala at helsinki.fi
Mon Nov 19 14:39:08 CET 2018


If three levels are needed in the future, I'd start from a clean(er) 
slate and at least make sure they're named appropriately.

--Ere

Marcel de Rooy kirjoitti 19.11.2018 klo 15.08:
> Three levels in BIBFrame again ?
> 
> *Van:* koha-devel-bounces at lists.koha-community.org 
> <koha-devel-bounces at lists.koha-community.org> *Namens *Tomas Cohen Arazi
> *Verzonden:* maandag 19 november 2018 14:02
> *Aan:* Paul Poulain <paul.poulain at biblibre.com>
> *CC:* koha-devel <koha-devel at lists.koha-community.org>
> *Onderwerp:* Re: [Koha-devel] What is biblioitemnumber for?
> 
> 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 <mailto: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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