[Evergreen-catalogers] Authority records

[Laurie Kulik]

Mike,

Jason just told me there is a fix for this bug and it is going into 
master today. Thank you!

Laurie

On 1/10/2013 3:45 PM, Mike Rylander wrote:
> Laurie,
>
> That /is/ very helpful! It identifies a general deficiency in the 
> Evergreen authority code, but one that can be addressed in a rather 
> straight-forward manner.
>
> As a followup question, what about records that cross the entire 
> authority type boundary?  That is, a title authority record containing 
> a 130 which has a name authority see-from field -- 410 in this case -- 
> and nothing else of substance to this discussion.  That's actually the 
> situation I should have started with, as the record in question is 
> here: https://launchpadlibrarian.net/123618121/bad_auth_record.txt
>
> Regardless of your answer to this question, we now have an 
> understanding of some work that should be done to further extend 
> Evergreen's authority capabilities, but the answer to this will be 
> important to the implementation path we choose.
>
> Thanks again!
>
> --miker
>
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 3:29 PM, Laurie Kulik <lkulik at mvlc.org 
> <mailto:lkulik at mvlc.org>> wrote:
>
>     Hi Mike,
>
>     1. A 400 field cannot stand alone without the 1XX field.
>     Therefore, your understanding there is correct.
>
>     2. You can have a heading that crosses both corporate and personal
>     names, particularly with a musical group and the lead musician. If
>     you have a 410 (See also tracing -- Corporate name) field and a
>     100 (Heading -- Personal name) then you must also include a 500 or
>     510 (broader) heading to correspond to the 110 or 400 respectively.
>
>     An example of this Authority record would be  the Dave Matthews Band.
>
>     110 2  Dave Matthews Band
>
>     410 2  Matthews Band
>
>     410 2  DMB
>
>     500 1  Matthews, Dave, $d 1967-
>
>     I hope this answers your questions~
>     Laurie
>
>
>
>     On 1/10/2013 2:31 PM, Mike Rylander wrote:
>
>         It's my understanding of authority records that they don't
>         make much sense without a 1XX field.  That is, one can not
>         construct a valid authority record containing, say, only a 400
>         field without a corresponding 100 field.  Is that
>         understanding correct?
>
>         Further, is there any conceivable reason to construct an
>         authority record such that it contains a 410 (See Also Tracing
>         -- Corporate Name) field and a 100 (Heading -- Personal Name)
>         field, but /without/ a 110 (Heading -- Corporate Name) field?
>          In other words, would one ever want an authority record that
>         crosses the heading type boundary, or should Heading, See
>         From, See Also and Linking entries always be of the same
>         heading type within one record?
>
>         Thanks in advance,
>
>         -- 
>         Mike Rylander
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Laurie Kulik
lkulik at mvlc.org
Database Manager/Cataloger
Merrimack Valley Library Consortium
1600 Osgood St.
N. Andover, MA 01845
(978) 557-8204 (work)
(978) 557-8101 (fax)