[Koha] Re: OPAC displays

[Rachel Hamilton-Williams]

Hi


>>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.

Koha 1.2.3 facilitated doing this if you wanted to - you would have a 
more restricted "biblio" record which contained only the information 
that (from the public POV :-) identified this work - title, author, 
subjects, abstract.

You then got a group (basically format) record which was the stuff that 
could change, without it being fundamentally a different "work" eg 
publisher, isbn, format/itemtype, class etc.

Then you got the item record which has the info specific to a particular 
item.

I think FRBR might be a bit more "general" than this - in that version 
of Koha the items were all the same work, but in different formats -  I 
think that FRBR might be wanting to group together items which are not 
"the same" even in my loose definition of the same :-)


>>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.

Well as HLT have this already (with their koha) - I'd direct you to a 
display to see, but I think their site is temporarily indisposed as they 
upgrade their interent connection -  I suspect one of the challenges we 
will face is how to "get back" that functionality in koha 2.2

Cheers
Rachel