On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 10:49 PM, Owen Leonard <oleonard@myacpl.org> wrote:
Well, I expect that the biblio records will be getting updated frequently, and since I also plan to use virtual shelves (lists) and have members using tagging, item-level item-types seem the way to go rather than duplicate biblios, right?
It's really just the frequency of updates that is an issue. Having item-level item types or not doesn't much affect lists and tagging.
But if I use biblio-level itemtypes, and therefore have a duplicate biblio-level record for each format, each one will need to be updated, tagged and listed separately? I think keeping these all in sync would be a data maintenance nightmare, since there currently isn't a way to bulk update the "biblio" level information on all of them in a single operation. My Proms 2009 video is available in Bluray, AVI, MPEG, standard DVD and mixed data/vdo DVD. All are exactly the same content, just different presentation/delivery formats.
Plus (correct me if I'm wrong) this eliminates my having to choose for Advanced Search - only Collection Code will be available for that?
You can choose whether Advanced Search uses collection code or item type either way, if I'm not mistaken.
I thought the Advanced Search option was only available for the biblio-level item types? I meant if I'm choosing to us Item-level ones, I can't use them for A.S., and therefore I'll make sure to use CCodes appropriately as a search factor. Note that then I'm **not** using the item types for my "format" information, just for circ policies, and don't need these to show up anywhere.
Back to icons then, is there a good biblio-level field to indicate in the search results (ideally with an icon) that a given biblio has available (child items with) format A only, or formats A+B or A+C? Fortunately there aren't that many possible combinations. . .
In terms of search results, there is no good way to indicate multiple formats if you're using item-level information. It's a common
I'm hoping I just didn't make myself so clear. Using the same example: Biblio: Title: Proms 2009 video Subjects: Music; Anglophilia SomeField: "Disc-VDO + Disc-AVI" (a single string value) Items: 3 copies of Disc-VDO 2 copies of Disc-AVI The member could then choose to check out one disc, or one of each, etc. Now if that **Biblio-level** SomeField has say seven possible values, enforced by Authority, isn't there a way to assign an icon to each value and have this show up in search results? Or failing that, re-purposing an existing field that will at least show the text there?
complaint and we don't have a good solution. The best you can get is to turn on XSLT and see a biblio-level material type (book, audio, etc).
This pulls up those tiny icons based on the leader content right? I'm hoping to not have to get into customizing that. . .