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

[Mike Rylander]

On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 12:11 PM, Yamil Suarez <ysuarez at berklee.edu> wrote:
> Hello,
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> 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?
>

Correct.  Aside from the authority cross-reference performed on
low-hit searches, everything (except authority browse, of course) is
done using bib data -- there's more of it, it's what the user sees,
and it's sure to give you a hit, filters and scoping not withstanding.

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> 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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