[Koha] Creative re-purposing of major fields

[Owen Leonard]

Also see that there are issues with the patch that require additional work.

  -- Owen



On Feb 15, 2011, at 8:56 AM, "Wagner, Jane" <jwagner at liblime.com> wrote:

> "Shelving location is not available for advanced search."
> 
> See a patch I submitted a year ago:
> 
> http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=4329
> 
> I don't think it's been incorporated into head yet.
> 
> Jane Wagner
> Senior Project Manager
> LibLime, a division of PTFS
> Content Management and Library Solutions
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> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: koha-bounces at lists.katipo.co.nz
> [mailto:koha-bounces at lists.katipo.co.nz] On Behalf Of hansbkk at gmail.com
> Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2011 8:42 AM
> To: koha at lists.katipo.co.nz
> Subject: Re: [Koha] Creative re-purposing of major fields
> 
> Sorry to be talking to myself here, but in doing some more extensive
> googling, I came across this:
> http://library-matters.blogspot.com/2009/03/dont-be-afraid-of-using-lots-o
> f-item.html
> 
> Thanks Joann!
> 
> And this:
> http://koha.org/documentation/manual/3.0/cataloging/item-fields-data-migra
> tion
> 
> These answered some of my questions - summarizing for future googlers
> (list members please correct me if this is wrong)
> 
> ----------------------
> Administrator can set an option to allow using either Collection or
> Item type for the OPAC's Advanced search, but not both (enhancement
> request! 8-)
> 
> Item type does determine circulation rules in effect for an item, but
> its usage doesn't need to be limited to this function - can have 50
> item types covered by four rules.
> 
> Shelving location is not available for advanced search.
> 
> ----------------------
> The question remains on whether the Collection and/or Shelving
> location can be assigned to items completely independently of Home
> branch - I realize the latter especially is "supposed to be"
> subsidiary to Branch, but since I don't need to use it for that
> function, and it displays in the OPAC, can I use it for something like
> Age appropriateness across locations?
> 
> 
> On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 6:30 PM,  <hansbkk at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I'm currently using Koha to catalog a collection of mostly non-book
> resources
>> at my school, many of which are stored on physical DVDs and/or online
> available
>> for download.
>> 
>> I'm thinking of re-purposing some of Koha's major data fields where
> their usual
>> meaning isn't all that relevant to this project. For example, I plan to
> create
>> my call numbers so they are sufficient to identify the physical location
> within
>> a given branch.  This will free up "Collection" and "Shelf Location" for
> other,
>> more relevant classifications.
>> 
>> Before I start mapping this out, I first want to get feedback that I'm
> not way
>> off-track thinking this way. First question:
>> 
>> I believe that the original intention was a hierarchy for physical
> location:
>>  Home branch -->  Collection --> Shelving location --> Call number
>> 
>> If I re-purpose these fields so that e.g. Collection is used for
> distinguishing
>> between "Disc-Data" vs "Disc-Video" vs "Disc-Mixed", is their any
> remnant of the
>> above original hierarchy that will cause trouble? Is Collection
> completely
>> independent of Branch in the database and UI design, or is there some
>> enforcement of one Collection being "contained" within a Branch?
>> 
>> Same question of course with Shelving location relative to both
> Collection and
>> Branch - say I used this field to map to "Age Appropriateness"
> (Adult-only,
>> Young adult, Juvenile, Early learners). Note that the Age factor is a
> biblio
>> level one, while many biblios will have both a Data and a Video disc - a
> member
>> may want to borrow only one or both.
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