I was actually planning on asking a very similar question to John's. Right now, all of the calls in Biblio.pm are based on biblionumber. We're currently working in a hybrid situation where I would like to use the Koha API get information from records based on our item ID, which I was planning on storing in 001, where such things normally go. The idea of having to first search the MARC for my unique ID to get the biblionumber that I need for GetBiblio or ModBiblio seems wasteful. Would it actually break anything to map biblionumber to 001? -- Brian -- Brian Harrington Content and Resource Development Coordinator Project MUSE The Johns Hopkins University Press brian@jhu.edu On Tue, 2 Dec 2008, Joe Atzberger wrote:

John --

biblionumber is the database's internal table key.  It should not correspond to data from the outside world.

--Joe

On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 5:13 PM, John <jdayrutherford@gmail.com> wrote: I have a new koha 3 installation. I am playing with importing marc records. I want to match on the 001 field. The default match field is set as ISBN now.

Do I need to set the biblioitems.biblionumber field to be the 001 field? Is there any relation between biblionumber and the fields defined in Record Matching Rules? [IMAGE]

John Rutherford

On Wed, 3 Dec 2008, Jesse Weaver wrote:

Is this item id the equivalent of a per-copy barcode or accession number, or a per biblio identifier?

It's a per-biblio identifier. I'm in the lucky position of not having to worry about physical items. -- Brian -- Brian Harrington Content and Resource Development Coordinator Project MUSE The Johns Hopkins University Press brian@jhu.edu