[Koha] Where would I put the OpenLibrary ID in the MARC record

[Nigel Titley]

Furthur on this and reading a bit more into MARC it looks like the 
information would go into MARC Field 024 with a source of 8. If there 
was a defined Standard Identifier for Openlibrary then the source would 
be 7 with the defined Standard Identifier for Openlibrary, but there isn't.

I'm straying into Real Librarian Territory here and I'm starting to feel 
a little lost (I'm really just a programmer). If the person who wrote 
the code for fetching covers from Openlibrary is around I'd be grateful 
if they could confirm/deny what their code does (or even point me to 
where I could look it up myself). To this end I've copied in the Koha 
Development community.

Or I may be barking up an entirely wrong tree. In which case feel free 
to say "Down boy, down".

Nigel

On 20/07/2023 23:20, Nigel Titley wrote:
> Just to give an example of an OpenLibrary record that I created earlier 
> today
> 
> https://openlibrary.org/books/OL49198571M/Analogue_Men#details
> 
> If at all possible I'd like to be able to display the cover using the 
> OLID (OL49198571M) but I'm not sure where to put it.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Nigel
> 
> On 20/07/2023 22:43, Nigel Titley wrote:
>> Gentlefolk
>>
>> I'm using the Openlibrary cover facility to display covers in my OPAC 
>> and it generally works very well (in the case where the cover doesn't 
>> exist in Openlibrary I scan and upload it). However, if the Biblio 
>> record doesn't have an ISBN or LCCN the cover lookup fails 
>> (obviously). Is there any way of recording the Openlibrary ID (OLID) 
>> in a Biblio record so that the cover lookup will work, even if there 
>> is no ISBN or LCCN?
>>
>> I've done a (fairly cursory) scan of the documentation but can't find 
>> and reference to where I should put the OLID so that Koha will look up 
>> the cover even if there is no ISBN or LCCN. Of course the facility may 
>> not exist, in which case I'd be grateful for confirmation from Someone 
>> Who Knows.
>>
>> Many thanks
>>
>> Nigel Titley
>>
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