No, somewhere along the line we went with 001 over 035. Elaine On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 6:25 PM, Ian Walls <ian.wa...@bywatersolutions.com> wrote: > Elaine, > > > What about your 035 field? Is that filled in with a unique value in your > target biblios? > > > -Ian > > On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 2:19 PM, Elaine Bradtke <e...@efdss.org> wrote: >> >> That complicates matters. I may have to rethink things. >> Thanks for the info. >> Elaine >> >> On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 6:14 PM, Ian Bays <ian.b...@ptfs-europe.com> >> wrote: >> > Hi. >> > The Control-number search term is set up in zebra as word or phrase. >> > You >> > can check what is found from the simple-search box by typing: >> > >> > Control-number="123456" >> > and searching for that. >> > However if you use hyphens then that is treated as white space so if you >> > have records with: >> > 123-456 >> > and one with >> > 123-678 >> > and one with >> > 123 >> > in the 001 tag then searching for 123 will find them all. >> > This might explain why they do not find a unique match. >> > >> > It might be possible to change the zebra configuration or add an index >> > to be >> > more literal but that takes it to another level. >> > I hope that explains a bit. >> > >> > Cheers. >> > >> > On 31/10/2011 18:01, Elaine Bradtke wrote: >> >> >> >> I followed the example here (control number is what I want it to match >> >> on) >> >> >> >> http://manual.koha-community.org/3.2/en/catadmin.html#recordmatchingrules >> >> But now I don't get any matches at all. >> >> Our control numbers are a combination of letters and numbers with >> >> punctuation (sometimes dashes, sometimes full stops). There is no >> >> explanation of what offset, length and normalization mean so I am just >> >> blindly imitating what's there rather than making an informed choice. >> >> Does our punctuation require different settings? >> >> Elaine >> >> >> >> On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 5:22 PM, Ian Bays<ian.b...@ptfs-europe.com> >> >> wrote: >> >>> >> >>> Hi Elaine, >> >>> >> >>> Yes as long as your unique number is in the 001 you can set up a new >> >>> match >> >>> rule referring to "Control-number" and match on that. I use that >> >>> quite a >> >>> lot. I think I posted about it about a year ago. >> >>> The Community documentation should be enough to get you going but do >> >>> come >> >>> back if you need more detail. >> >>> >> >>> Cheers. >> >>> Ian >> >>> >> >>> On 31/10/2011 17:06, Elaine Bradtke wrote: >> >>>> >> >>>> Ours is a rather quirky collection, I know. But an awful lot of it >> >>>> doesn't have an ISBN or ISSN (1364 biblios in a collection of 1664 >> >>>> fall into this category). I am working on a project to batch change >> >>>> all the biblios in a particular collection. Selecting them, >> >>>> downloading them, and editing the MARC records was easy. Now I would >> >>>> like to upload them and overwrite the old records. This only seems >> >>>> possible for the 300 biblios with an ISBN. >> >>>> We have unique internal control numbers (001). Is there any way I >> >>>> can >> >>>> match the records with this field instead? >> >>>> If not, what are my other options? >> >>> >> >>> -- >> >>> Ian Bays >> >>> Director of Projects >> >>> PTFS Europe >> >>> mobile: +44 (0) 7774995297 >> >>> phone: +44 (0) 800 756 6803 >> >>> skype: ian.bays >> >>> email: ian.b...@ptfs-europe.com >> >>> >> >>> _______________________________________________ >> >>> Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org >> >>> Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz >> >>> http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha >> >>> >> >> >> >> >> > >> > -- >> > Ian Bays >> > Director of Projects >> > PTFS Europe >> > mobile: +44 (0) 7774995297 >> > phone: +44 (0) 800 756 6803 >> > skype: ian.bays >> > email: ian.b...@ptfs-europe.com >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org >> > Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz >> > http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha >> > >> >> >> >> -- >> Elaine Bradtke >> Data Wrangler >> VWML >> English Folk Dance and Song Society | http://www.efdss.org >> Cecil Sharp House, 2 Regent's Park Road, London NW1 7AY >> Tel +44 (0) 20 7485 2206 (This number is for the English Folk Dance >> and Song Society in London, England. 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-- Elaine Bradtke Data Wrangler VWML English Folk Dance and Song Society | http://www.efdss.org Cecil Sharp House, 2 Regent's Park Road, London NW1 7AY Tel +44 (0) 20 7485 2206 (This number is for the English Folk Dance and Song Society in London, England. If you wish to phone me personally, send an e-mail first. I work off site) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Registered Company No. 297142 Charity Registered in England and Wales No. 305999 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Writing about music is like dancing about architecture" --Elvis Costello (Musician magazine No. 60 (October 1983), p. 52) _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
