Re: [Koha-devel] Biblio table

2010-04-07 Thread Bob Birchall @ Calyx
devel@lists.koha.org Subject: Re: [Koha-devel] Biblio table Hello all Thanks Bob for a good explanation, although we really weren't thinking about films when we developed the schema of biblio, groups (or biblioitems) and items. We originally designed Koha this way to deal with what I thought

Re: [Koha-devel] Biblio table

2010-04-06 Thread Rosalie Blake
Hello all Thanks Bob for a good explanation, although we really weren't thinking about films when we developed the schema of biblio, groups (or biblioitems) and items. We originally designed Koha this way to deal with what I thought of as the Anne Frank problem, which is the problem of taking reser

Re: [Koha-devel] Biblio table

2010-04-05 Thread Bob Birchall @ Calyx
The original design of Koha (ten years ago) allowed a work (biblio) to be expressed in various forms (biblioitems). So a work such as 'Out of Africa' could be created as a biblio with separate biblioitems for its forms as, say, a book and a film. Since Koha 3.0 (and probably earlier) this is no l