[Koha] Importing records preserving the system number

[Ian Bays]

Hi Elaine,
The framework can be adjusted to use (eg) Control-number as the link to 
"Other Item Identifier":

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Advanced constraints, Link.

I'm not sure of the reason for the "Warning: This value should not 
change after data has been added to your catalog".

At one point I think the link only worked from the staff interface in 
the MARC view (for the fields we were using) but there is a need to be 
able to link between these items in the OPAC. Hopefully some of the 
analytic work will help this.

We also have customers who would like an automatically-allocated, 
increasing, unique number for such as control number.

It would be interesting to see if others have a need (or indeed a 
solution) to these.

All the best.
Ian

On 31/01/2011 13:49, Elaine Bradtke wrote:
> We have used the control number as our stable number. But as I
> understand it the 77X link is done with a title search.  This works
> well for some things with unique titles, and is nearly useless for
> others.  A proper link based on the search for the control number
> would bring about an exact match, in theory.
>
> The other problem with control numbers:  They don't auto generate. Any
> numbers for new items that we create must be unique.
> So far the date, time and cataloguer's initials is the best option I
> can come up with (eg 201101311346EB for me, now)
> But it's easy to miss type something and it makes for a very long number. . .
> Elaine
>
> On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 2:21 PM, Linda Culberson
> <lculber at mdah.state.ms.us>  wrote:
>>   We have found that using the Control-number:##### to be extremely slow
>> and undependable. In our case, at least, this is definitely not a
>> workable "solution" and is barely a solution at all.
>>
>> On 1:59 PM, Ian Bays wrote:
>>> Hi Stefano,
>>> We have thought about this for some of our customer requirements but
>>> have (quickly) concluded that using the biblionumber (and
>>> biblioitemnumber) in koha is not the way to achieve this linking.
>>>
>>> If you have a number that has significance to you and your data then
>>> put that into the 001 control number field (Marc21).  You can link to
>>> that from 77x just as easily as with biblionumber.
>>>
>>> If you try to use biblionumber for these links and you reload your
>>> data then all the numbers will be wrong.
>>>
>>> The search for contents of the 001 field (say 12345) would be:
>>>
>>> Control-number:12345
>>>
>>> I hope this helps.
>>>
>>> Ian
>>> On 26/01/2011 10:11, Stefano Bargioni wrote:
>>>> This is an autoreply :-)
>>>> I wonder why nobody have had this problem before. How can be
>>>> preserved internal links -contained in fields like 77x- without
>>>> preserving the system number?
>>>> I'll try to solve it hacking the code (C4::Biblio), but in my opinion
>>>> Koha needs a way to do this, an option in bulkmarcimport for instance.
>>>> Bye. Stefano
>>>>
>>>> On Jan 20, 2011, at 11:27 , Stefano Bargioni wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I'm trying to migrate about 140,000 records. Each of them has 001
>>>>> with the original value. I copied it into 999c and 999d.
>>>>> Importing in Koha, 999c and 999d are replaced by a new
>>>>> (autoincremented) bibliotemnumber.
>>>>> How can I force Koha to assign bibliotemnumbers using 001 or 999c/d?
>>>>> Thank you. SB
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