[Koha] Journal articles and analytical records

[camins at numismatics.org]

Dear Zeno,

> but do you create a record for every issue ?
> Do you add TOC and abstratcs in every issue ?

We do not create separate bib records for each _issue_, although in
principle we create a separate bib record for at least one article in each
issue of our "core" journals. In practice, I'm not even sure that we do
that.

The search I proposed would give a list of every single article in a given
journal. A refinement would be to provide a list of years, for example:
<a href="opac-search.pl?q=issn:022&limit-yr=2004">Search for child records
from 2004</a>

I can't imagine how we could reasonably go about limiting our search to a
specific issue (one could imagine using some sort of volume-issue-date
number stored 952$x, although, as you point out, that's not a good
solution...).

> Because the standard, for me, is to create only one bibliographic record,
> add an item for every issue during the year and after one year I
> collapse all items of the year
> into only one item.
>
> But I don't lend the issues of journals.

What you describe is exactly what we want to do with our item records. My
feeling is that any improved searching we can offer to our users is a good
thing, even if it's non-ideal like the solution I suggested above.

Regards,
Jared Camins-Esakov

P.S. In an earlier e-mail, it was suggested that perhaps there should be a
wiki for Koha/analytic issues. I will look into setting one up.