I copy here a discussion held some days ago in koha-devel list > Mathieu Saby <mathieu.saby@univ-rennes2.fr> > Today, information about serial is only stored in MySQL database. As as consequence, callnumber, holding library, location, notes are not searchable in OPAC, because Zebra cannot index them. One solution could be to copy serial information in Marc structure as does, for example, Sudoc network in France (955 field is used : http://documentation.abes.fr/sudoc/formats/loc/zones/955.htm ) What do you think about it? MJ Ray wrote : > > Sounds good to me. I guess it will need another table in the > Koha-to-MARC mappings so we can handle it differently for each MARC > flavour. Anyone know what the defaults for other MARCs would be? > > Thanks, M. Saby : I think there is a standard used in Marc21 format for holdings : ISO 10324 http://www.loc.gov/marc/holdings/hdintro.html http://www.itsmarc.com/crs/mergedProjects/holdings/holdings/appendix_d_ansi_niso_z39_71_and_iso_10324_data_elements.htm There is something similar for Unimarc http://archive.ifla.org/VI/8/projects/UNIMARC-HoldingsFormat.pdf BUT... it is not used in France http://www.bnf.fr/fr/professionnels/f_um/s.format_unimarc_donnees_local.html?first_Art=non Regards M. Saby Rennes 2 University
I wonder if the work on holdings records could be helpful in this context. Adding a see also on bug 20447. As we work in a union catalog setting where local information in Koha would be overwritten by incoming new versions of the record, the holding records seem like a good solution. Another might be to handle this like items, where the information is only inserted at the time of indexing or exporting.