[Koha] ISBN display

Rubén Fernández Asensio enseikou at gmail.com
Mon Sep 3 18:23:59 NZST 2018


Interesting. So nobody misses hyphens anymore.
Not even cataloguers? I thought AACR2 Rule 1.8B1 prescribed them. I 
don't know what RDA says about them though.

El 03/09/18 a les 08:02, Ma. Victoria H. Silva-Manuel ha escrit:
> Hi.
> 
> Do you really need to show ISBN with hyphens? I haven't seen any OPAC 
> showing hyphens.
> 
> On Mon, Sep 3, 2018 at 1:24 PM Rubén Fernández Asensio 
> <enseikou at gmail.com <mailto:enseikou at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Hello all,
>     I understand that by MARC specifications the ISBN hyphens "may be
>     system
>     generated as display constants" and are not supposed to be carried in
>     the MARC record:
>     http://www.loc.gov/marc/bibliographic/bd020.html
> 
>     However all OPAC views show them without hyphens and I haven't found
>     any
>     system preference to switch them on. On the contrary, I found
>     references
>     to a patch to suppress them, at least in MARC view:
>     https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=2592
> 
>     What's the appropriate way to switch on hyphen display in Normal and
>     ISBD views, if possible at all? I'm using Koha 18.05.
> 
>     Ruben
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> 
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> Ma. Victoria H. Silva-Manuel
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