collection-specific idno

[kontovasBodleian]

In most records, the first <idno> child of <publicationStmt> (with no type attribute) indicates something about either the collection or the project; newer Oxford records have "FIHRIST", older Oxford and Cambridge records have "OCIMCO", and several records have MARC organisation codes, as suggested in the old manual....

Many records, however, are lacking one of these, or have multiple codes, some of which seem to refer to the same thing. Here's the ones I've extracted:

collection	idno(s)	issue(s)
british library	BL
cambridge university	CulUK	means same as UkCU & UKCU ?
	OCIMCO
	UKCU	var. of UkCU
	xyz	boilerplate
	UkCU
eton college windsor	UkWE
hertford college (university of oxford)	FIHRIST
jesus college (cambridge)	UkCU-JE
keble college (university of oxford)	FIHRIST
King's College Cambridge	UkCU-KGS
new college (university of oxford)	ukoxunc
oxford university	FIHRIST
	OCIMCO
	UkOxU
queen's college cambridge	UkCU-QUE
royal asiatic society of great britain and ireland	UkLoRAS
school of oriental and african studies	SOAS
	OCIMCO
	UkLSOA	means same as SOAS
st antony's college (oxford)	FIHRIST
the university of manchester	UkMaJRU
trinity college cambridge	UkCU-TRI
	????	boilerplate
trinity college dublin, the university of dublin	TCD
trinity hall (cambridge)	UkCU-TRH
university of birmingham	UkBU
university of st andrews	StSaUL
wadham college (university of oxford)	ukoxuwc
wellcome trust	UkLW

Regularising these may not be desirable or important, but maybe @julian-cook-bl-uk or @andrew-morrison could tell me what these codes are actually used for by the system -- if anything -- and anyone (@yf227, @awatson67, @JakeBenson ?) could chime in with suggestions as to how they should ideally look going forward? Are we still supposed to be using MARC organisation codes?

[andrew-morrison]

Fihrist has taken records from many sources, created over a long time span. In 2017-2018, certain changes were made to make them compatible with the use of authority files and the current web site. But those changes were deliberately kept minimal. The goal was not to make all records uniform in all respects. These IDs are an example of something that was left as they were because they have no effect on the display or indexing on the Fihrist web site. Likewise for class attributes and funder/publisher/principal author names. If the schema does not require them, you can safely leave them out of any new records you create, and ignore them when editing existing records.

[JakeBenson]

Manchester employs UkMaJRU an acronym for Manchester and Rylands for Special Collections records in both Fihrist and MDC.

[kontovasBodleian]

Thanks, both.

And thanks, @andrew-morrison, for the explanation. I'll mark this as resolved since the existing records don't require editing and take this into consideration moving forward!