[Koha] Re: OPAC displays

[Stephen Hedges]

The OPAC display described here is very much the way the "original"
(pre-MARC) Koha displayed search results.  Proof once again that Chris and
Katipo were ahead of their time!

Stephen

BWS Johnson said:
> Salvete!
>
> There's an interesting thread on the American Government Documents
> listserv right now on OPAC displays, and I figured it might cause
> interesting discussion here. I have forwarded one of the messages below.
> I am aware that any change to the OPAC would probably involve an awful
> lot of work, and I try very hard not to beg and plead for anything I'm
> not paying for, so please don't take this as an immediate request for
> implementation, but rather something to gnaw on as we all try and figure
> out what configuration suits our patrons.
>
> Cheers,
> Brooke @ Hinsdale MA
>
> I am not a cataloger.
>
> But I'm intrigued by the interplay between the (very important) issue
> of OPAC display that Barbie focused in on and on the draft document's
> question about FRBR-related consequences of multiple records. It seems
> to me that describing each item or instance (I don't remember the
> exact FRBR nomenclature) makes sense, provided that those records can
> be grouped into a work-level record for display so that (in my
> understanding) we would get one hit for Statistical Abstract of the
> United States with four or five instance records hanging off of it,
> one each for web, cd, micro, print and (locally for us) one for a
> commercial reprint and several for commercial online versions.
>
> My patrons would love to find ONE record that describes "The Starr
> Report" or "9/11 Commission Report" and includes a list of all the
> instances of that work, regardless of format (or publisher).
> Similarly, if I had one "work" record to display for Code of Federal
> Regulations that somehow had my print, fiche and electronic holdings
> attached to it, swell.
>
> I don't know what FRBR-type displays will require -- it seems like
> separate records per format -- but workflow issues aside, eventually
> getting all the instances of a work grouped into one display
> (regardless of how man records underlie the display) would be my ideal
> OPAC. As far as I know, our ILS (III) won't do this, at least not yet.
> If Aleph handles FRBR-ized display, cool.
>
> (I do agree with Barbie that GPO cataloger time is valuable, so
> lower-level records for other formats makes sense to me, as long as
> one format gets the full treatment.)
>
> I'd love to spend some time at Spring FDLP discussing this.
> Scott
>


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Stephen Hedges
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