[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] using Evergreen and Summon

[Gordana Vitez]

Hi George,

Right now, we are sending our deletes in nightly updates. The problem
is that the deletes aren't registering in Summon.

For example, search in Summon on Social interest challenge to mankind,
limit to items in the library catalogue:
 
http://niagaracollege.summon.serialssolutions.com/search?s.cmd=addTextFilter%28SourceType\:\%28%22Library+Catalog%22\%29%29&s.pn=1&s.q=social+interest+challenge+to+mankind

 
Title comes up and when you click on the link, it brings you to a bib
record in Evergreen without holdings. If you try to do the same search,
directly in Evergreen, there are zero hits.
 
http://niagaracollege.niagaraevergreen.ca/opac/en-CA/skin/nc/xml/rresult.xml?rt=keyword&tp=keyword&t=social%20interest%20challenge%20mankind&ft=&l=2&d=1&f=&ol=2

 
So it leads me to believe one of 2 things, that our uploads aren't
working properly or that something is being retained, somewhere. 

Any other thoughts?

Thanks!
Gordana




>>> "Duimovich, George" <George.Duimovich at NRCan-RNCan.gc.ca> 1/9/2012
12:20 PM >>>
Hello Gordana,
 
There are 'hooks' to do this - so you can adjust your method of dumping
MARC for Summons to *exclude* records where deleted = 'true'  - this
flag is set in the biblio.record_entry table.  
 
How is Summons consuming your MARC records? I assume that Summons is
using the more common approach of indexing time based dumps (daily,
weekly, etc.) from the database, correct? Or are they crawling the
catalogue using unapi?
 
If if they're just indexing regular dumps, then you can set up (or
customize) your script to generate a file with record id's from the
database that excludes those bib id's where deleted = 'true'. This this
file in turn can can be passed to the "marc_export" script for
generating the dump that Summons will index.  You can also extend this
approach to pass Summons records that have recently been deleted and /
or modified if you want to avoid Summons having to re-index the entire
database every night.
 
So it looks as if you'll have to do a minor adjustment to your process
for extracting MARC records to use those flags (plus any others you'd
like to add) to ensure Summons is just indexing what you want it to
index.  
 
Hope that helps.
 
george
George Duimovich 
NRCan Library / Bibliothèque de RNCan 

 

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[mailto:open-ils-general-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf
Of Gordana Vitez
Sent: January 9, 2012 11:53
To: Evergreen Discussion Group
Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] using Evergreen and Summon


Happy New Year!
 
Niagara College has been using Evergreen and Summon quite successfully
since September 2010. However, we've experienced a bit of a problem with
deleted records. I've been in touch with Andrew Nagy of Serials
Solutions and he provided the following info:
 
"The reason why your deleted records are getting indexed is that the
MARC mapping that we have defined for your collection does not
delinitate between a good record and a deleted record.  We need some way
of knowing whether a record is real or deleted.  Do you know if
evergreen can do this?"
 
Can anyone tell me if Evergreen can do this?
 
Thanks!
Gordana
 
 
 
 
Gordana Vitez
Library Services & Systems Coordinator
NC Libraries and Learning Commons
Niagara College
300 Woodlawn Rd
Welland Ontario
L3C 7L3
Phone: (905) 735 2211 ext 7404
Fax: (905) 736 6021
gvitez at niagaracollege.ca