[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Workaround for EG's current lack of automaticsystem generation of authority records?

[Yamil Suarez]

Hello,

George brings up good points. My current system does identify if an  
authority record was created by a human or the system. Also we do end  
up having to keep an eye on our authority records to do clean up when  
necessary to cut down on any noise. Since our alphabetical searching  
is based on mostly authority record data (author, subject, etc), it is  
in our best interest in our old ILS to keep an eye on our records. I  
guess that for the most part the EG OPAC does it searching and  
faceting by only looking at that originated in the bib records and not  
in data found in authority records? Is this correct?

Thanks in advance,
Yamil




On Sep 30, 2011, at 9:33 AM, Duimovich, George wrote:

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> Sounds good - I know other systems have had this functionality.
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> Big caveat, I think, is that any support for this functionality  
> should come with a way of identifying "system generated" authority  
> files distinct from the "official" ones.  This would permit better  
> reporting and additional automated actions against these records and/ 
> or for cataloguers to be able to better identify, review and then  
> "officialize" them by changing the 'automated' flag after any  
> updates/review.
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> Our situation is that somewhere a long time ago (DRA / MultiLIS  
> days??), our Unicorn-based records were in a system that had this  
> feature alongside, I believe, an automated keyword generating  
> feature. So we ended up with this HUGE authority list but the  
> majority of them were questionable (generated from automated "650"  
> keywords). I speculate that someone turned the feature on, and there  
> wasn't any follow-up. So years later, we're left wondering if  
> there's any "good stuff" in the authority records without LC control  
> numbers, etc. but not having any apparent "hook" into easily  
> determining which ones were cataloguer created vs. those created by  
> the ILS's auto-authority making function.
>
> George
> George Duimovich
> NRCan Library / Bibliothèque de RNCan
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