Summary: | 7xx fields should optionally link on standard (ISBN/ISSN/etc.) numbers | ||
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Product: | Koha | Reporter: | Jared Camins-Esakov <jcamins> |
Component: | OPAC | Assignee: | Jared Camins-Esakov <jcamins> |
Status: | NEW --- | QA Contact: | Bugs List <koha-bugs> |
Severity: | enhancement | ||
Priority: | P5 - low | CC: | flyingendpaper, ztajoli |
Version: | unspecified | ||
Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | All | ||
GIT URL: | Change sponsored?: | --- | |
Patch complexity: | --- | Documentation contact: | |
Documentation submission: | Text to go in the release notes: | ||
Version(s) released in: | Circulation function: | ||
Bug Depends on: | |||
Bug Blocks: | 34482 |
Description
Jared Camins-Esakov
2011-03-30 19:57:21 UTC
For me is not a good idea. ISSN are quite valid as persistent identifiers but ISBN not. ISBN are valid identifers for Book avaible fom publishers but not after the edition is not more avaible. Publishers can reuse them. So ISBN are good persistent id for booksellers but not for libraraies. I suggest this be optional, enabled by a syspref (UseStandardNumbers). I know that ISBNs are neither persistent nor guaranteed unique, but in any given collection, they are likely to be close enough for the purposes of linking records. This provides a reasonably reliable link in libraries that use linking fields extensively in their existing data. This feature is not going to make it into 3.4. |