[Koha] Music notation or printed music - how to make it obvious

Bernardo Gonzalez Kriegel gonzalez at famaf.unc.edu.ar
Fri Mar 26 08:14:59 NZDT 2010


Elaine,
yes, it can be corrected (sound to notated music or score), you could look
at
http://artes.biblio.unc.edu.ar/cgi-bin/koha/opac-search.pl?q=mozart+piano+concertos+cadenza
in which we use the icon
http://artes.biblio.unc.edu.ar/opac-tmpl/prog/famfamfam/silk/score.png

We do it changing the XSLT files of results and details.

Regards
bgk


On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 1:45 PM, Elaine Bradtke <bradtke.e at googlemail.com>wrote:

> Aha, so it does use the leader info!  I was confused by legacy
> information on an older version of Koha.
> However. . . I would like to point out that in MARC 21, leader 6 c is
> "notated music", and the display says "sound" (and the icon implies
> sound). I think calling music notation "sound" is worse than leaving
> the information out altogether.
> Thanks for the pointer. Any chance sound can be corrected  to music,
> with perhaps a different icon?
> Elaine Bradtke
>
> On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 4:33 PM, Nicole Engard <nengard at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Elaine,
> >
> > I found it:
> http://koha.org/documentation/manual/3.2/opac/xslt/item-type-display
> >
> > Nicole
> >
> > On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 12:27 PM, Nicole Engard <nengard at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> Elaine,
> >>
> >> If you turn on XSLT stylesheets in your OPAC you will actually see a
> >> music symbol on the search results and I think on the bib record
> >> detail page itself.  I'm off to try a test for you to get you an image
> >> of what it will look like.
> >>
> >> Thanks
> >> Nicole
> >>
> >> On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 12:00 PM, Elaine Bradtke
> >> <bradtke.e at googlemail.com> wrote:
> >>> For some reason, in all the years that our little library has been in
> >>> existence, no one has bothered to specify when a publication is
> >>> primarily music notation.  I'm changing this as we migrate to Koha
> >>> (nearly half our stuff is music notation), but before I take the
> >>> plunge I need to think about how it will work, and what it will look
> >>> like.
> >>>
> >>> It's my understanding that Koha stores Leader information, but does
> >>> nothing with it, is this correct?
> >>>
> >>> I want something that will show up clearly, is easily spotted. Not
> >>> buried somewhere in the physical description or down in a notes field.
> >>>  I'm disinclined to use general material designations, but that could
> >>> be one way.  The other thought was item type. Collections seem less
> >>> intuitive somehow, and as we have lots of special collections which
> >>> might contain individual publications of music notation, I'm not sure
> >>> if that works.
> >>> Anyone with experience in this?
> >>> Thanks
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>> Elaine Bradtke
> >>> EFDSS
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>
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