On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 12:13:02PM +1300, Rosalie Blake said:
Hi again
Chris has already answered, but I'll just add the rationale - which was that biblio describes the intellectual property. So author title, copyright date.
Then any copies we have of this piece of copyright, whether a large print edition, or a hardback or paperback is attached to the biblio with the ISBN, publishing info, location in the biblioitem record. If we've got two large print copies, they'll share one Biblioitem record, and each copy will have its own item record.
At some stage after the table name was well buried in lines of code, we decided that a better name for biblioitem would be "formats". And you never know, sometime in the future we may get around to a search and replace and change it in the code. Cheers Si -- Simon Blake simon@katipo.co.nz Katipo Communications +64 25 300 825