https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=9921
--- Comment #59 from [email protected] --- (In reply to paxed from comment #58) > > 001 alone does not guarantee uniqueness. 001 and 003 together should be > globally unique. If 001 is changed, then 003 should be changed to match the > org code of the system. Indeed. That is why I referred to the original post. But as Koha has a plugin that can be used in the 003, this field does not present a hurdle for use of that MARC field as designed. The other Integrated Library Systems I have worked with did not overlay data in the 003 field. Usually, information in that field was also automatically transferred to the 035. Also automatically, a new number that was relevant to our system was generated for the 001 and our institutional code was put into the 003 field. Indeed, there is TRULY nothing globally unique to the 999$c. If a Koha system permitted another Koha system to import a record in which the 999$c overlays, there is no "003" field to designate which institution the "unique identifier" belongs. This came up because I am trying to create Frameworks for my co-workers that are not trained in cataloging but yet have to catalog. It didn't make sense that some of our records did not have anything in the 001 field, as I was taught that this field was essential. So I am simply trying to understand how/why Koha differs so much from the other ILS I have used in the past and from MARC 21 in general. Thus, I am wondering what it is about the 999$c that permits an auto-generated unique identifier to be created when it can not be created in the 001, and if anything can be done to either duplicate the 999$c into the 001 or use the 001 instead of the 999$c. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes. _______________________________________________ Koha-bugs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.koha-community.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/koha-bugs website : http://www.koha-community.org/ git : http://git.koha-community.org/ bugs : http://bugs.koha-community.org/
