Re: Storage locations again

On Mon, 2007-22-01 at 14:19 +0100, Markus Hoenicka wrote:
> Daniel O'Donnell <[email protected]> was heard to say:
> 
> > I can see both: a call number and information about reading room, home
> > or office, etc. Also what about a chapter from a collection: the book
> > has a call number (so I can get it again to see the other chapters), and
> > the chapter I photocopied has a physical location. If we can have
> > multiple AVs, I suppose it is not a great problem. Hard to disentangle,
> > though if we decide to have a CN field later.
> >
> 
> I see. Multiple AVs or a new CN field (or do you need more than one?) are of
> course doable in the database. We just have to figure out ways to export these
> data to RIS. We could concatenate the values with a separator, as the AV field
> is of unlimited size as per the spec. risx could be amended to allow several AV
> fields (in fact, it already supports one AV per user).
> 
> > Lying awake thinking about this (!), I began to wonder is M was not
> > better than U: strictly speaking we are talking about agreeing on a
> > miscellaneous field, not adding a user-defined one.
> >
> 
> The thing is, there is no M field which is unused in all reference types. You'll
> always face conflicts with particular reference types no matter which M field
> you pick. The M fields are a leftover of the record-based schema that the
> original incarnations of Reference Manager apparently used, as I've discussed
> here:
> 
> http://www.mhoenicka.de/system-cgi/blog/index.php?itemid=515

Damn. I hadn't realised. What about using a high U for right now then?
Or a separate CN which is converted to RIS AV? I'd say put them all on
AV (i.e. locations like "Shelf in office" and "PR 1119 .A2 v304" except
that I can see reasons for wanting to be able to distinguish between
them: in printing out library cards of spine stickers (both of which I
use) for example: I would want to be able to suppress non-call number
AVs if both existed.

I suppose we could do some kind of ordering thing as they do with date:
AV  - Call Number/Physical Location

-dan
> 
> regards,
> Markus
> 
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