In the process of cleaning up data to prepare for a batch upload into Koha, I have noticed that some of our ISBNs are not unique. These are books from small independent publishers who forgot to change the ISBN when they issued a new book. I'm happy to leave them in the ISBN field (020a ) as long as this won't cause problems in Koha. Looking at the framework it is also tagged as biblioitems.isbn. I know record matching uses ISBN. Does anyone know if the contents of this field must be unique? Thanks -- Elaine Bradtke Data Wrangler VWML English Folk Dance and Song Society | http://www.efdss.org Cecil Sharp House, 2 Regent's Park Road, London NW1 7AY Tel +44 (0) 20 7485 2206 (This number is for the English Folk Dance and Song Society in London, England. If you wish to phone me personally, send an e-mail first. I work off site) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Registered Company No. 297142 Charity Registered in England and Wales No. 305999 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Writing about music is like dancing about architecture" --Elvis Costello (Musician magazine No. 60 (October 1983), p. 52)
If all at possible you should not have records with duplicate ISBNs in your database. If you happen to upload a record containing an ISBN that is found in two existing records, Koha will create a third record. It does not matter if you set up your import profile to match on the ISBN, Koha cannot decide which of the two existing records to use. On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 1:47 PM, Elaine Bradtke <eb@efdss.org> wrote:
In the process of cleaning up data to prepare for a batch upload into Koha, I have noticed that some of our ISBNs are not unique. These are books from small independent publishers who forgot to change the ISBN when they issued a new book. I'm happy to leave them in the ISBN field (020a ) as long as this won't cause problems in Koha. Looking at the framework it is also tagged as biblioitems.isbn. I know record matching uses ISBN. Does anyone know if the contents of this field must be unique? Thanks -- Elaine Bradtke Data Wrangler VWML English Folk Dance and Song Society | http://www.efdss.org Cecil Sharp House, 2 Regent's Park Road, London NW1 7AY Tel +44 (0) 20 7485 2206 (This number is for the English Folk Dance and Song Society in London, England. If you wish to phone me personally, send an e-mail first. I work off site) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Registered Company No. 297142 Charity Registered in England and Wales No. 305999 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Writing about music is like dancing about architecture" --Elvis Costello (Musician magazine No. 60 (October 1983), p. 52) _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
-- Customer Support e-Libris Technologies, LLC email: elibrishelpdesk@gmail.com phone: 1-877-723-9447 ext. 2
Put at this subfiled if you use MARC21. Refer to this page http://www.loc.gov/marc/bibliographic/bd020.html 020 - International Standard Book Number (R) $z - Canceled/invalid ISBN Canceled or invalid ISBN and any parenthetical qualifying information. ISBN (invalid) and the embedded hyphens may be generated for display. Each canceled/invalid ISBN is contained in a separate subfield $z. If no valid ISBN exists, subfield $z may be used alone in the record. 020 ##$z0835200028 :$c$10.00 020 ##$a0835200019 (pbk.) :$c$2.95 [Two ISBN's associated with one catalog record, one of which is invalid.] 2012/10/4 e-Libris Helpdesk <elibris.helpdesk@gmail.com>:
If all at possible you should not have records with duplicate ISBNs in your database. If you happen to upload a record containing an ISBN that is found in two existing records, Koha will create a third record. It does not matter if you set up your import profile to match on the ISBN, Koha cannot decide which of the two existing records to use.
On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 1:47 PM, Elaine Bradtke <eb@efdss.org> wrote:
In the process of cleaning up data to prepare for a batch upload into Koha, I have noticed that some of our ISBNs are not unique. These are books from small independent publishers who forgot to change the ISBN when they issued a new book. I'm happy to leave them in the ISBN field (020a ) as long as this won't cause problems in Koha. Looking at the framework it is also tagged as biblioitems.isbn. I know record matching uses ISBN. Does anyone know if the contents of this field must be unique? Thanks -- Elaine Bradtke Data Wrangler VWML English Folk Dance and Song Society | http://www.efdss.org Cecil Sharp House, 2 Regent's Park Road, London NW1 7AY Tel +44 (0) 20 7485 2206 (This number is for the English Folk Dance and Song Society in London, England. If you wish to phone me personally, send an e-mail first. I work off site) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Registered Company No. 297142 Charity Registered in England and Wales No. 305999 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Writing about music is like dancing about architecture" --Elvis Costello (Musician magazine No. 60 (October 1983), p. 52) _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
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Put at this subfiled if you use MARC21. Refer to this page http://www.loc.gov/marc/bibliographic/bd020.html 020 - International Standard Book Number (R) $z - Canceled/invalid ISBN Canceled or invalid ISBN and any parenthetical qualifying information. ISBN (invalid) and the embedded hyphens may be generated for display. Each canceled/invalid ISBN is contained in a separate subfield $z. If no valid ISBN exists, subfield $z may be used alone in the record. 020 ##$z0835200028 :$c$10.00 020 ##$a0835200019 (pbk.) :$c$2.95 [Two ISBN's associated with one catalog record, one of which is invalid.] 2012/10/4 e-Libris Helpdesk <elibris.helpdesk@gmail.com>:
If all at possible you should not have records with duplicate ISBNs in your database. If you happen to upload a record containing an ISBN that is found in two existing records, Koha will create a third record. It does not matter if you set up your import profile to match on the ISBN, Koha cannot decide which of the two existing records to use.
On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 1:47 PM, Elaine Bradtke <eb@efdss.org> wrote:
In the process of cleaning up data to prepare for a batch upload into Koha, I have noticed that some of our ISBNs are not unique. These are books from small independent publishers who forgot to change the ISBN when they issued a new book. I'm happy to leave them in the ISBN field (020a ) as long as this won't cause problems in Koha. Looking at the framework it is also tagged as biblioitems.isbn. I know record matching uses ISBN. Does anyone know if the contents of this field must be unique? Thanks -- Elaine Bradtke Data Wrangler VWML English Folk Dance and Song Society | http://www.efdss.org Cecil Sharp House, 2 Regent's Park Road, London NW1 7AY Tel +44 (0) 20 7485 2206 (This number is for the English Folk Dance and Song Society in London, England. If you wish to phone me personally, send an e-mail first. I work off site) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Registered Company No. 297142 Charity Registered in England and Wales No. 305999 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Writing about music is like dancing about architecture" --Elvis Costello (Musician magazine No. 60 (October 1983), p. 52) _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
-- Customer Support e-Libris Technologies, LLC email: elibrishelpdesk@gmail.com phone: 1-877-723-9447 ext. 2 _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
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