[Koha] Record matching for biblios without ISBN or ISSN

[Ian Walls]

Elaine,


What about your 035 field?  Is that filled in with a unique value in your
target biblios?


-Ian

On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 2:19 PM, Elaine Bradtke <eb at efdss.org> wrote:

> 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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