[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Aged Circulation?

[Martha Driscoll]

It sounds like statistical categories are a much broader concept, more 
like a custom field with no assumptions about what kind of data users 
may choose to store.  In that case, I can see the reluctance to store 
that information in the aged_circulation table.  I think there may still 
be a role for a more narrowly defined statistical category that is 
retained in cases where aging the circulation table is desired or mandated.

Martha Driscoll
Systems Manager
North of Boston Library Exchange
Danvers, Massachusetts
www.noblenet.org

On 12/3/2010 11:32 AM, Mike Rylander wrote:

> I don't have, on hand, empirical evidence one way or the other, but I
> think it's reasonable to assume that because it's a stated use case
> for user stat-cats, using stat-cat values to store individually
> specific information about a patron is not entirely uncommon.  Also,
> because stat-cats can be locally defined, it's not unreasonable to
> further assume that local policy could leak information about patrons
> from "foreign" libraries.  These (and others) are all things we'd need
> to think carefully about in expanding the set of retained patron data.
>
> All that being said, it is certainly a solvable problem.
>