[Koha] Journal articles and analytical records

[Jared Camins-Esakov]

Dear Kathy, et. al.,

Returning to the subject of the display of 773s, I have submitted two 
patches today for 3.2/3.4 (depending on whether these are classified as 
bugfixes or not). The first fixes the semantics of indicator 1 for MARC 
fields 780 and 785, and the second provides preliminary support for 
display of 773s (according to the OCLC bib formats documentation, these 
are the only three fields in the 76x-78x range that should display). See 
Bugzilla reports (which include patches):
http://bugs.koha.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=4370
http://bugs.koha.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=4371

The 773 display and linking is very crude. The link merely consists of a 
search on 773$a and 773$t, which is probably not the behavior that most 
people will want, in light of the earlier discussion about $x, etc. 
earlier, but I figure imitating the way 780s and 785s are handled is a 
good start, and a simple change that's unlikely to cause anyone any 
problems. More precise (and useful) linking with $x etc. would probably 
require additional configuration on a per-library basis. For example, at 
the ANS we would like the 773s to link only to the parent record, and 
the parent records to have a link to search for child records, which 
requires a great deal of additional Zebra configuration.

Any thoughts would be welcome (and if someone who is familiar with the 
wiki would like to create a wiki page for discussing analytics, I would 
be happy to move the discussion of analytics over there). Hopefully this 
will be of use to others, as well.

Regards,
Jared Camins-Esakov

Kathy Rippel wrote:
> Yes, there are obviously more of us interested in analytics than one 
> may have imagined!
>
> Unfortunately, the current display features don't show host 
> publication information, at least not for us.
>
> As a "work around", both in our legacy system and Koha, I have added 
> 590 notes, but this seems counter-productive when we have all of the 
> data right there in the 7xx fields.
>
> We may be interested in chipping in financially if anyone else wants 
> to spearhead this. Contact me offline and we can talk.
>
> Kathy

-- 
Jared Camins-Esakov
Cataloger - American Numismatic Society
75 Varick Street, 11th Floor
New York, NY  10013
Tel: (212) 571-4470, ext. 171
camins at numismatics.org
http://www.numismatics.org/Library/Library