[Evergreen-catalogers] Linking authority from bib is confusing

[Yamil Suarez]

Mark,

For starters, I am not a cataloger or have an MLS, but some soem of my
favorite people are catalogers. So here is my best summary of the behavior
you are seeing. We have seen this behavior since around 2.1.x, and
I believe this behavior is on purpose.

Normally what we see is that there will be an entry for the 1xx entry in
the proper alphabetical position for the text of the 1xx. Then there will
be other entries for each of the 4xx/5xx fields of that authority record,
in the proper alphabetical position based on the text of each 4xx/5xx field
in the record. All these repeated entires are displayed visually identical,
with the 1xx text displayed aligned to the left, and with the 4xx/5xx
fields aligned to the right.

Here are some examples from our newly updated EG 2.4 system...


A) In our system we have an authority record for a musician called Ben
Harper that look more or less like this:

100 $a Harper, Ben $d 1969
400 $a Harper, Benjamin Chase $d 1969


When we right click on the term "Harper, Ben" inside a 100/700 tag within a
Bib record, the content of the context menu is something like....

...
Harper, Winard

Harper, Ben / 1969
     See from: Harper, Benjamin Chase

Harper, Benjamin

Harper, Ben / 1969
     See from: Harper, Benjamin Chase

Harper, Benny
...

In this case there are two repeated entries for Ben Harpers 1xx/4xx
authority entry. The first one appears frist because it is sorting based on
the 1xx value, and the second one appears second because it is being sorted
by the 4xx value.



B) Another good example is the behavior of the authority records related to
the musician Tom Morello, who is also known as Nightwatchman. As well as
the related musical group called Street Sweeper Social Club.

Their authority records look more or less like this...


100 $a Morello, Tom $d 1964-
400 $a Nightwatchman $d 1964-



100 $a Nightwatchman $d 1964-
400 $a Night Watchman $d 1964-
500 $a Morello, Tom $d 1964-



110 $a Street Sweeper Social Club
410 $a SSSC
500 $a Nightwatchman $d 1964-
500 $a Riley, Boots 700


When we right click on the term "Nightwatchman" inside a 100/700 tag within
a Bib record, the content of the context menu is something like....

...

Nightmares on Wax (Musical Group)

Nightranger

Nightwatchman / 1964-
     See from: Nightwatchman / 1964-
     See also: Morello, Tom / 1964-

Morello, Tom / 1964-
     See also: Nightwatchman / 1964-

Street Sweeper Social Club
     See from: SSSC
     See also: Nightwatchman / 1964-
     See also: Riley, Boots

Nightwish (Musical Grop)

Nigl, Georg

...

In this case even though we expect to be browsing terms that start with the
letter "n", we are seeing entires that appear to start with "Morello" and
"Street", because the sorting in those cases is based on the
right aligned 4xx/5xx values and not the left aligned 1xx values.

Hope this make sense. Let me know if you have other questions.

Good luck,
Yamil



On May 14, 2013, at 10:11 PM, Mark Cooper <markchristophercooper at gmail.com>
wrote:

Hello all,

I've been testing authorities recently with a 2.3.2 system, just upgraded
to 2.4.0.
I'm slightly confused about how the right click interface works with
authorities in a bib record. And apparently it's not just me -- the
cataloging librarian I've been working with on this is also confused.
Here's the situation:

Pretend I have an ILS with 1 bib and 1 authority.

The authority record is for Tolkien with 1 x 100 and 6 x 400 fields.
The bib record is 'The fellowship of the ring'.

When I right click on the bib 100 field to link to the authority I see 7
blocks of matches (the same authority represented x 7) -- once for each
1/400 field in the authority record. We were expecting to see an authority
record presented only once in the right-click menu, not to have what
appears to be multiple repetitions of the same authority.

So firstly, is this what others are experiencing? Secondly, is this bug
worthy?
I'm linking to a screenshot in case I haven't been clear with the
description.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/870845/authority.jpg

This is not related to:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/evergreen/+bug/1175308

Thanks,
Mark

Mark Cooper
Open Source Software Coordinator
Sonoma County Library
Santa Rosa, CA
mcooper at sonoma.lib.ca.us
707-545-0831 x1521

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