[Koha-devel] Questions about terminology

[Barton Chittenden]

On Mon, Oct 22, 2018 at 10:14 AM Owen Leonard <oleonard at myacpl.org> wrote:

> > I'm starting with looking for instances of 'biblio', which should be
> 'Bibliographic record'.
>
> Hopefully Bug 19833 took care of (most of?) them.
> https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=19833


I found a dozen or so in master.


> > I'm wondering about instances of "Biblio number" in the text... I think
> that
> > "Bibliographic number" is actually *less* clear... "Bibliographic Record
> Number"
> > is better, but in most cases where Biblio number is used (e.g. the Marc
> Editor),
> > Biblio number makes sense in its context.
>
> As a human-readable term I prefer "Bibliographic record number."
> However, operations which reference biblionumber should all be fairly
> technical, and thus a technical term might be appropriate. I'm curious
> what edge cases there might be that don't fall into the "technical"
> category.
>

Most of the ones that I found were via grepping, I'm going to be looking at
them in more detail shortly, so I'll have more context.


> On the other hand, if we expect these more technical users to know
> what biblionumber is... how did they learn?
>

I'm guessing that most probably learn from the URL or the database
schema/reports library. It depends on level of expertise, I'm sure. I
suppose I could ask on the koha general mailing list...

--Barton
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