[Koha] Record matching for biblios without ISBN or ISSN

[Ian Walls]

Elaine,


No worries, glad to help.  Could use some coffee myself, but tomorrow (it's
late in Mumbai, where many of us are enjoying KohaCon '11!).

Cheers,


-Ian

On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 1:28 PM, Elaine Bradtke <eb at efdss.org> wrote:

> AHA!
> Thanks, I had a feeling there was something I could do. . .  just not
> looking in the right place!  Sorry to have bothered you all with such
> a simple question.  Need more coffee.
> Elaine
>
> On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 5:22 PM, Ian Bays <ian.bays at ptfs-europe.com>
> wrote:
> > Hi Elaine,
> >
> > Yes as long as your unique number is in the 001 you can set up a new
> match
> > rule referring to "Control-number" and match on that.  I use that quite a
> > lot.  I think I posted about it about a year ago.
> > The Community documentation should be enough to get you going but do come
> > back if you need more detail.
> >
> > Cheers.
> > Ian
> >
> > On 31/10/2011 17:06, Elaine Bradtke wrote:
> >>
> >> Ours is a rather quirky collection, I know.  But an awful lot of it
> >> doesn't have an ISBN or ISSN (1364 biblios in a collection of 1664
> >> fall into this category). I am working on a project to batch change
> >> all the biblios in a particular collection. Selecting them,
> >> downloading them, and editing the MARC records was easy.  Now I would
> >> like to upload them and overwrite the old records.  This only seems
> >> possible for the 300 biblios with an ISBN.
> >> We have unique internal control numbers (001).  Is there any way I can
> >> match the records with this field instead?
> >> If not, what are my other options?
> >
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