Hi Kathy, Yes, it is. I tried some pretty straightforward matchpoints, but it just kept loading the incoming auth record as a new one. Glad to know there's a bug report filed. I'm adding us as being affected by it.
Mary -----Original Message----- From: Kathy Lussier [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2012 9:43 AM To: [email protected]; 'Evergreen Discussion Group' Subject: RE: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen 2.2 and Authorities Hi Mary, I have filed a bug report on the issue in 2.2 - https://bugs.launchpad.net/evergreen/+bug/867691. I have not been able to get the system to find any matches when using the authority match sets. Is that what you found too? Kathy ------------------------------------------------------------- Kathy Lussier Project Coordinator Massachusetts Library Network Cooperative (508) 756-0172 (508) 755-3721 (fax) [email protected] IM: kmlussier (AOL & Yahoo) Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/kmlussier >>-----Original Message----- >>From: [email protected] [mailto:open- >>[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mary >>Llewellyn >>Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2012 9:38 AM >>To: 'Evergreen Discussion Group' >>Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen 2.2 and Authorities >> >>I'm experiencing the same thing in 2.2. >> >>Mary >> >> >>-----Original Message----- >>From: [email protected] >>[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf >>Of Elizabeth McLean >>Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2012 1:41 PM >>To: 'Evergreen Discussion Group' >>Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen 2.2 and Authorities >> >>Does anyone use Vandelay to import and overlay existing authority >>records? >>We are able to import new records, but cannot overlay existing >>authority records. I haven't been able to find documentation that says >>Evergreen specifically supports overlay of existing authority records, >>and if so, what field is used for the overlay-merge point. We are on >>release 2.1. >> >>Thank you, >> >>Libby McLean >>Cataloging Librarian II >>King County Library System >>[email protected] >> >>-----Original Message----- >>From: [email protected] >>[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf >>Of Mary Llewellyn >>Sent: Wednesday, February 08, 2012 6:38 AM >>To: 'Evergreen Discussion Group' >>Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen 2.2 and Authorities >> >>Hi George, >> >>Thanks for the linking-script information. I don't work much on the >>database side, aside from running a few SQL queries, so this is good >>to know. >>I'll >>talk to our systems guy about it. >> >>As to the placeholder records, what I'm proposing is that the headings >>in 1xx, 6xx, 7xx, and 8xx be treated as quasi-authorized and generate >>brief acq records. You're right, there would have to be a mechanism >>for merging/overlaying those records when the full ones become >>available. >>Other >>systems can do it. I'd like to see Evergreen develop in that direction. >> >>The workflow as I would prefer is for us to do quarterly extracts of >>the newest bib records added or updated during the previous 3 months. >>We send that to our authority control vendor, who returns them to us >>with authorized headings in the bibs and full auth records that >>correspond to the headings. >>We load those back to our database, replacing/merging/overlaying the >>bibs and doing the same to existing brief auth records that had been >>system-generated previously. Also, the vendor would provide us with >>auth files for changed headings, and we would load those to >>replace/merge/overlay previously loaded authority records. >> >>Mary >> >> >>-----Original Message----- >>From: [email protected] >>[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf >>Of Duimovich, George >>Sent: Tuesday, February 07, 2012 5:47 PM >>To: Evergreen Discussion Group >>Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen 2.2 and Authorities >> >> >>Not sure how fully this would address your needs, but there is an >>auto-linking script that ships in the /support-scripts/ directory >>called "authority_control_fields.pl" - It can be used to populate your >>authority linking table and can be re-run following any significant >>imports to your authority entries (but re-running against entire >>database can take time). >> >>We've taken the approach to automate this script on a weekly and/or >>monthly "cron-job" by re-running the above script against only new or >>modified bib records for that specified period. But we have already >>outsourced the creation / validation of our authority records from our >>bib data (so we're not adding any large batches of *new* authorities >>to match against). >> >>Re: placeholder records: you make a good point regarding browse >>authority searching excluding non-authorized entries. On the one hand, >>it is intended to permit the browsing of authorized entries (say, >>authors) and it does that. But I can see how folks may want this new >>functionality more generalizable (e.g. browse index functionality - >>all entries vs. just browsing authorized entries, etc.). I'm also >>wondering whether the use of placeholder records will be creating more >>work later on (merging, overlaying, etc.) for the benefit of making >>the authority index browse more like a browse all entries index? >> >>George >> >>George Duimovich >>NRCan Library / Bibliothèque de RNCan >> >> >> >> >> >>-----Original Message----- >>From: [email protected] >>[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf >>Of Mary Llewellyn >>Sent: February 7, 2012 16:25 >>To: Evergreen Discussion Group >>Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen 2.2 and Authorities >> >>Hi all, >> >>Today I turned my attention to testing the new Authorities browse >>searching in Evergreen 2.2. I loaded some auth records through >>Vandelay and was able to search them in the browse search. But I'm >>uncertain about linking auth records to bibs; I see how to do it >>manually, but I'm hoping there's a way to have bibs link to auths as >>they are loaded, since it's not humanly possible to link manually link >>all the bibs with their respective auth records. Have I missed >>something, or is this still in development? >> >>What would be nice is if the 1XX, 6xx, 7xx, and 8xx headings in the >>bib record would create placeholder auth records for headings as the >>bibs are loaded, which could be replaced/overlaid later with a load of >>full auth records from a vendor such as Backstage Library Works. >>Otherwise, we'll have a lot of records not retrievable with those >>browse searches because their full auth records aren't in the system >>yet. We'd never be caught up. >> >>Thanks, >> >>Mary >> >> >>Mary Llewellyn >>Database Manager >>Bibliomation, Inc. >>Middlebury, CT >>[email protected]
