[Koha] ISBN display

Joy Nelson joy at bywatersolutions.com
Tue Sep 4 02:12:42 NZST 2018


No hyphens in RDA

RDA 2.15.1.4
The ISBN is a 10- or 13-digit number recorded in the MARC 020 field, ‡a, with both indicators blank. Do not include hyphens or the “ISBN” preceding the number. Qualifying information is recorded in ‡q ((e.g. (set) or (disc#). 

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> On Sep 3, 2018, at 1:23 AM, Rubén Fernández Asensio <enseikou at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> Interesting. So nobody misses hyphens anymore.
> Not even cataloguers? I thought AACR2 Rule 1.8B1 prescribed them. I don't know what RDA says about them though.
> 
> El 03/09/18 a les 08:02, Ma. Victoria H. Silva-Manuel ha escrit:
>> Hi.
>> Do you really need to show ISBN with hyphens? I haven't seen any OPAC showing hyphens.
>> On Mon, Sep 3, 2018 at 1:24 PM Rubén Fernández Asensio <enseikou at gmail.com <mailto:enseikou at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>    Hello all,
>>    I understand that by MARC specifications the ISBN hyphens "may be
>>    system
>>    generated as display constants" and are not supposed to be carried in
>>    the MARC record:
>>    http://www.loc.gov/marc/bibliographic/bd020.html
>>    However all OPAC views show them without hyphens and I haven't found
>>    any
>>    system preference to switch them on. On the contrary, I found
>>    references
>>    to a patch to suppress them, at least in MARC view:
>>    https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=2592
>>    What's the appropriate way to switch on hyphen display in Normal and
>>    ISBD views, if possible at all? I'm using Koha 18.05.
>>    Ruben
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>> Ma. Victoria H. Silva-Manuel
>> Registered Librarian, 3892
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