[Koha] Record matching for biblios without ISBN or ISSN

[Elaine Bradtke]

That complicates matters.  I may have to rethink things.
Thanks for the info.
Elaine

On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 6:14 PM, Ian Bays <ian.bays at ptfs-europe.com> wrote:
> Hi.
> The Control-number search term is set up in zebra as word or phrase.  You
> can check what is found from the simple-search box by typing:
>
> Control-number="123456"
> and searching for that.
> However if you use hyphens then that is treated as white space so if you
> have records with:
> 123-456
> and one with
> 123-678
> and one with
> 123
> in the 001 tag then searching for 123 will find them all.
> This might explain why they do not find a unique match.
>
> It might be possible to change the zebra configuration or add an index to be
> more literal but that takes it to another level.
> I hope that explains a bit.
>
> Cheers.
>
> On 31/10/2011 18:01, Elaine Bradtke wrote:
>>
>> I followed the example here (control number is what I want it to match
>> on)
>> http://manual.koha-community.org/3.2/en/catadmin.html#recordmatchingrules
>> But now I don't get any matches at all.
>> Our control numbers are a combination of letters and numbers with
>> punctuation (sometimes dashes, sometimes full stops).  There is no
>> explanation of what offset, length and normalization mean so I am just
>> blindly imitating what's there rather than making an informed choice.
>> Does our punctuation require different settings?
>> Elaine
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 5:22 PM, Ian Bays<ian.bays at ptfs-europe.com>
>>  wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Elaine,
>>>
>>> Yes as long as your unique number is in the 001 you can set up a new
>>> match
>>> rule referring to "Control-number" and match on that.  I use that quite a
>>> lot.  I think I posted about it about a year ago.
>>> The Community documentation should be enough to get you going but do come
>>> back if you need more detail.
>>>
>>> Cheers.
>>> Ian
>>>
>>> On 31/10/2011 17:06, Elaine Bradtke wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Ours is a rather quirky collection, I know.  But an awful lot of it
>>>> doesn't have an ISBN or ISSN (1364 biblios in a collection of 1664
>>>> fall into this category). I am working on a project to batch change
>>>> all the biblios in a particular collection. Selecting them,
>>>> downloading them, and editing the MARC records was easy.  Now I would
>>>> like to upload them and overwrite the old records.  This only seems
>>>> possible for the 300 biblios with an ISBN.
>>>> We have unique internal control numbers (001).  Is there any way I can
>>>> match the records with this field instead?
>>>> If not, what are my other options?
>>>
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>>
>>
>
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