[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen 2.2 and Authorities

[Mary Llewellyn]

Hi Kathy,

Yes, it is. I tried some pretty straightforward matchpoints, but it just
kept loading the incoming auth record as a new one. Glad to know there's a
bug report filed. I'm adding us as being affected by it.

Mary


-----Original Message-----
From: Kathy Lussier [mailto:klussier at masslnc.org] 
Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2012 9:43 AM
To: mllewell at biblio.org; 'Evergreen Discussion Group'
Subject: RE: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen 2.2 and Authorities

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