[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen 2.2 and Authorities

[Kathy Lussier]

Hi Mary,

I have filed a bug report on the issue in 2.2 -
https://bugs.launchpad.net/evergreen/+bug/867691. I have not been able to
get the system to find any matches when using the authority match sets. Is
that what you found too?

Kathy

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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: open-ils-general-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org [mailto:open-
>>ils-general-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Mary
>>Llewellyn
>>Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2012 9:38 AM
>>To: 'Evergreen Discussion Group'
>>Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen 2.2 and Authorities
>>
>>I'm experiencing the same thing in 2.2.
>>
>>Mary
>>
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: open-ils-general-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org
>>[mailto:open-ils-general-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf
>>Of
>>Elizabeth McLean
>>Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2012 1:41 PM
>>To: 'Evergreen Discussion Group'
>>Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen 2.2 and Authorities
>>
>>Does anyone use Vandelay to import and overlay existing authority
>>records?
>>We are able to import new records, but cannot overlay existing
>>authority
>>records. I haven't been able to find documentation that says Evergreen
>>specifically supports overlay of existing authority records, and if so,
>>what
>>field is used for the overlay-merge point. We are on release 2.1.
>>
>>Thank you,
>>
>>Libby McLean
>>Cataloging Librarian II
>>King County Library System
>>lmclean at kcls.org
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: open-ils-general-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org
>>[mailto:open-ils-general-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf
>>Of
>>Mary Llewellyn
>>Sent: Wednesday, February 08, 2012 6:38 AM
>>To: 'Evergreen Discussion Group'
>>Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen 2.2 and Authorities
>>
>>Hi George,
>>
>>Thanks for the linking-script information. I don't work much on the
>>database
>>side, aside from running a few SQL queries, so this is good to know.
>>I'll
>>talk to our systems guy about it.
>>
>>As to the placeholder records, what I'm proposing is that the headings
>>in
>>1xx, 6xx, 7xx, and 8xx be treated as quasi-authorized and generate
>>brief acq
>>records. You're right, there would have to be a mechanism for
>>merging/overlaying those records when the full ones become available.
>>Other
>>systems can do it. I'd like to see Evergreen develop in that direction.
>>
>>The workflow as I would prefer is for us to do quarterly extracts of
>>the
>>newest bib records added or updated during the previous 3 months. We
>>send
>>that to our authority control vendor, who returns them to us with
>>authorized
>>headings in the bibs and full auth records that correspond to the
>>headings.
>>We load those back to our database, replacing/merging/overlaying the
>>bibs
>>and doing the same to existing brief auth records that had been
>>system-generated previously. Also, the vendor would provide us with
>>auth
>>files for changed headings, and we would load those to
>>replace/merge/overlay
>>previously loaded authority records.
>>
>>Mary
>>
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: open-ils-general-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org
>>[mailto:open-ils-general-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf
>>Of
>>Duimovich, George
>>Sent: Tuesday, February 07, 2012 5:47 PM
>>To: Evergreen Discussion Group
>>Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen 2.2 and Authorities
>>
>>
>>Not sure how fully this would address your needs, but there is an
>>auto-linking script that ships in the /support-scripts/ directory
>>called
>>"authority_control_fields.pl" - It can be used to populate your
>>authority
>>linking table and can be re-run following any significant imports to
>>your
>>authority entries (but re-running against entire database can take
>>time).
>>
>>We've taken the approach to automate this script on a weekly and/or
>>monthly
>>"cron-job" by re-running the above script against only new or modified
>>bib
>>records for that specified period. But we have already outsourced the
>>creation / validation of our authority records from our bib data (so
>>we're
>>not adding any large batches of *new* authorities to match against).
>>
>>Re: placeholder records: you make a good point regarding browse
>>authority
>>searching excluding non-authorized entries. On the one hand, it is
>>intended
>>to permit the browsing of authorized entries (say, authors) and it does
>>that. But I can see how folks may want this new functionality more
>>generalizable (e.g. browse index functionality - all entries vs. just
>>browsing authorized entries, etc.). I'm also wondering whether the use
>>of
>>placeholder records will be creating more work later on (merging,
>>overlaying, etc.) for the benefit of making the authority index browse
>>more
>>like a browse all entries index?
>>
>>George
>>
>>George Duimovich
>>NRCan Library / Bibliothèque de RNCan
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: open-ils-general-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org
>>[mailto:open-ils-general-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf
>>Of
>>Mary Llewellyn
>>Sent: February 7, 2012 16:25
>>To: Evergreen Discussion Group
>>Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen 2.2 and Authorities
>>
>>Hi all,
>>
>>Today I turned my attention to testing the new Authorities browse
>>searching
>>in Evergreen 2.2. I loaded some auth records through Vandelay and was
>>able
>>to search them in the browse search. But I'm uncertain about linking
>>auth
>>records to bibs; I see how to do it manually, but I'm hoping there's a
>>way
>>to have bibs link to auths as they are loaded, since it's not humanly
>>possible to link manually link all the bibs with their respective auth
>>records. Have I missed something, or is this still in development?
>>
>>What would be nice is if the 1XX, 6xx, 7xx, and 8xx headings in the bib
>>record would create placeholder auth records for headings as the bibs
>>are
>>loaded, which could be replaced/overlaid later with a load of full auth
>>records from a vendor such as Backstage Library Works.
>>Otherwise, we'll have a lot of records not retrievable with those
>>browse
>>searches because their full auth records aren't in the system yet. We'd
>>never be caught up.
>>
>>Thanks,
>>
>>Mary
>>
>>
>>Mary Llewellyn
>>Database Manager
>>Bibliomation, Inc.
>>Middlebury, CT
>>mllewell at biblio.org