[Evergreen-catalogers] Linking authority from bib is confusing

[Mark Cooper]

Hi Yamil,

Thanks for the clarification, I see how it's working now.

Cheers!

Mark

On May 16, 2013, at 1:30 PM, Yamil Suarez <ysuarez at berklee.edu> wrote:

> 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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