Bug 35683 - Record Detail View should more accurately display the material type
Summary: Record Detail View should more accurately display the material type
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: Koha
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Cataloging (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All All
: P3 enhancement with 10 votes (vote)
Assignee: Bugs List
QA Contact: Testopia
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Reported: 2024-01-02 17:37 UTC by Esther Melander
Modified: 2024-01-06 20:21 UTC (History)
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Description Esther Melander 2024-01-02 17:37:30 UTC
The record detail view appears to pull the Material Type display information from the 000 Leader space 6. This needs more consistency and a better reflection of the material type.

Some examples:

Projected medium = Film
Language Material = Text
Mixed materials = Mixed Materials
Musical Sound Recording = Music
Nonmusical Sound Recording = Sound
Manuscript language Material = Text
Notated Music = Score

Some of these make sense, but others could cause confusion. For example the term Film could imply a motion picture or a 35mm film. Perhaps it would be better if the display replicated the text in space 6. It may be difficult to have better precision with the language because of the continual changing of the definitions over time.

To further add to the discussion, if more specificity is wanted, then the 007 could also be used as a check for the display.
Comment 1 Katrin Fischer 2024-01-02 22:26:40 UTC
The code for this is quite complicated, but I think the goal here was to use terms targeted to the users. I think some of the MARC terminology would be really hard to understand for library patrons. 

There is some documentation on the icons in the manual. I am not sure how complete it is, but maybe it would be a good starting point for discussion:
https://koha-community.org/manual/latest/en/html/cataloging.html#material-type-cataloging-guide-label
Comment 2 Jack 2024-01-06 20:21:11 UTC
Showing Film for a DVD is not useful, it is confusing to patrons.  Use of 000, 007 & 008 allows you to accurately show the Material Type being used.