[Koha] Record matching for biblios without ISBN or ISSN

Tue Nov 1 07:27:58 NZDT 2011

No, somewhere along the line we went with 001 over 035.
Elaine

On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 6:25 PM, Ian Walls
<ian.walls at bywatersolutions.com> wrote:
> 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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Elaine Bradtke
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VWML
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