[Koha] More questions for migrating to koha

[Andres Tarallo]

Paul POULAIN wrote:

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>> We've been studing the Koha Database Schema (for release 2.2). 
>> According to this document we find out that one biblio is shared by 
>> many biblioitems, as many as copies of the book we have. In order to 
>> load the database how do I represent this reality in MARC 21 records?
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> you mean biblio and items I think.
> If you really mean biblioitems, then you're wrong : 1 biblio means 1 
> biblioitem line. But may be many items.
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You're right I mixed up in the schema, I'm not used to the notation used 
in this schema.

>> One idea we have is building a full MARC21 record for each copy of  a 
>> title we have. If this is the way of doing things the Bulk marc 
>> import should take into acount this situation and make one biblio and 
>> as many biblioitems as copies of the book we have.
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> no, 1 biblio & X items.

Now is understood.

>> The other idea is Build a full record with as many 035 tags as copies 
>> of that  book we have. Again bulkmarcimport should take into account 
>> this and build the biblio and biblioitems needed.
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>> We want to know what is the proper way to build our records in order 
>> to get this reality fully represented in the koha database.
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> Yes, that's the proper way if you speak of biblio & items.
> in this case, the 035 subfields MUST be mapped to item tab (10) and 
> don't map a 035 subfield in another tab (except for ignore).

Ok, we'll continue working towards this direction.


                                                                   Andres