Serial Analytics

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Other pages in this series: Multipart Bibliographics | Sets with Volumes | Serial Analytics | Monograph Analytics

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Before you start and Reference

This guide is for the UseControlNumber method, for an overview video please see the KohaCon video about analytics

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Parent Record (Serial)	Child Record (Article)
LDR ////////s/////////////// 001 u14841 003 0st 020 _a ISBN 022 _a ISSN 100 _a Author 245 _a Title 250 _a Edition 260 _a Place _b Publisher _c Year 952 _9 itemnumber 1 _p Item Barcode 1 999 _c biblionumber	LDR ////////a/////////////// 001 a6745 003 0st 773 0# _0 biblionumber _9 itemnumber 1 _a Author _b Edition _d Place, Publisher, Year _o Item Barcode 1 _t Title _w (0st)u14841 _x ISSN _z ISBN
An example linking in all it's magical glory

MARC21 Rules

You catalogue serials (magazines, journals, etc) and also some select articles contained within them. You wish for borrowers to be able to navigate from the serial record down to the article records within, and back again.

To achieve this, the following MARC21 rules have been outlined by the LOC.

Parent Record	Child Record
LDR ///////s//////////////// 001 u14841 003 0st 245 _a Title of Parent 774 0# _t Title of Child _w (0st)a6745	LDR ///////a//////////////// 001 a6745 003 0st 245 _a Title of Child 773 0# _0 10736 _9 11345 _t Title of Parent _w (0st)u14841

For Parents Record (Serial)

You must define the record type in the Leader as follows:

LDR - Leader

For a 'Serial Issue', the Bibliographic level bit (position 7) should be set as follows for Parent to Child links to display;

• s = 'Serial'

001 - Control Number

When combined with Control Number Identifier must be unique.

003 - Control Number Identifier

Used to identify the institution the record was catalogued in. In a union catalogue, this is used in combination with Control Number to make a unique identifier for the record.

774 - Constituent Unit Entry

It is no longer recommended to create these as it can lead to unmanageably large MARC records for the parent serials.

For Child Records (Articles)

You must define the record type in the Leader and you must define a 773 field as described below for linked to work:

Note: If UseControlNumber is enabled and EasyAnalytics is disabled, then these records can be added from the parent New menu using New child record

LDR - Leader

For an 'Analytic record', the Bibliographic level bit (position 7) should be set as follows for Parent to Child links to display;

• a = 'Monographic component part'
• b = 'Serial component part'

773 - Host Item Entry

For Child to Parent links to work as expected, the first indicator must be set to literal `0` and the `w` subfield must contain the control number of the parent record.

Optionally, you can also fill out the `t` and `g` subfields.

Koha Practical Requirements

Parent Record	Child Record
LDR ///////s//////////////// 001 u14841 245 _a Title of Parent	LDR ///////a//////////////// 001 a6745 245 _a Title of Child 773 0# _0 10736 _9 11345 _t Title of Parent _w u14841

With UseControlNumber set to Use koha will use the host serial records 001 - Control Number to link article records back to their container serials.

Koha does NOT yet support the combined Control Number + Control Number Identifier to build links, and thus the 003 does not have to be populated, and the child 773_w subfield should contain ONLY the parent Control Number and not the combination

Koha will IGNORE any 774's set in the parent record, and so you should follow the guidance above and not populate them. Koha will however build a search based upon the parent control number to find linked articles from the parent to the children.

All other rules should be followed as described by the LOC above.

See also

• Analytics
• Multipart Bibliographics
• Analytic Record support
• Manual: Adding Analytic Records
• Bug 5528 - Analytical records support
• Bug 15851