[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Need Captions and Patterns advice for Jet Magazine

[Dan Wells]

Hello all,

Yes, we are using the nonstandard 'l' pattern value in production.  I think we have just one subscription which is 'every three weeks', and as far as I am aware, the code works fine with that line in Date.pm uncommented.

I wasn't sure at the time if there was a different, better way to code this type of pattern, but if we are still wondering two years later, I would agree that we should simply add it as a supported, nonstandard option.

Dan

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From: open-ils-general-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org [mailto:open-ils-general-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Lebbeous Fogle-Weekley
Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2013 4:40 PM
To: Evergreen Discussion Group
Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Need Captions and Patterns advice for Jet Magazine

Hi Mary and Erica (and Dan),

I can think of two possible ways forward on this right now:

1) Search Z39.50 sources for somebody's else MARC records of Jet magazine.  Look in any records you find for 853 tags.  It's conceivable to me that a cataloger somewhere has found a clever way to express a triweekly pattern indirectly even though the MFHD standard doesn't specify a direct representation for that.  Such an 853 could be turned into an Evergreen caption and pattern if it exists.

2) I think Dan Wells was toying with adding some super-secret nonstandard triweekly prediction logic to Evergreen in commit 0bdfc37cda by inventing a value of l for pattern subfield $w, to represent triweekly.  Dan, are you by any chance running with this at your site (although in Evergreen proper the line is commented out)?
If so, I would totally support elevating this hack to a feature.  This
*could* lead to a situation where we have a new choice in the frequency dropdown for triweekly, and everything becomes simple.  But I'm not sure yet about any possibly underlying difficulties with the logic, or any problems Dan may have already run into.

Thanks all!

Lebbeous

On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 2:36 PM, Mary Llewellyn <mllewell at biblio.org> wrote:
> Hi Erica,
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> It’s not being published 3 weeks out of each month. It’s being 
> published at
> 3 week intervals, like a biweekly would be published every 2 weeks.
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> I’ve looked at this year’s published issues, and it looks like in the 
> early part of the year, it didn’t keep to the 3 week schedule, but 
> became more regular about that as the year progressed. As if it wasn’t 
> hard enough to predict.
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> Jan 14, Jan 28, Feb 11, Feb 25, Mar 18, April 15, April 29, May 20, 
> June 10, July 1, July 22, Aug 12, Sept. 2, Sept. 23.
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> Mary
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> From: open-ils-general-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org
> [mailto:open-ils-general-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf 
> Of Erica Rohlfs
> Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2013 12:23 PM
> To: Evergreen Discussion Group
> Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Need Captions and Patterns advice for 
> Jet Magazine
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> Good Afternoon Mary,
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> My apologies for not being very familiar with Jet magazine. Will the 
> magazine be published on the same three weeks of each month (i.e. 1st, 
> 2nd, and 4th week) or more randomly every three weeks (i.e. Sept 9, 
> Sept 30, Oct 21)? Are there any combined issues to account for in the 
> prediction? Thank you very much for clarifying for me!
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> Erica
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> On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 11:05 AM, Mary Llewellyn <mllewell at biblio.org>
> wrote:
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> Hi all,
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> One of my librarians has presented me with a puzzle. She is trying to 
> set up the caption and pattern for Jet magazine, which, beginning this 
> year, has an “every three week” publication frequency. The current 
> MARC coding for it is Frequency = z and Regularity = r. There is no 
> code for “triweekly.” We can’t figure out how to set it so it will predict a new issue ever three weeks.
> Has anyone out there run into anything like this and can share some insight?
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> Thanks,
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> Mary
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> Mary Llewellyn
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> Database Manager
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> Bibliomation, Inc.
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> 24 Wooster Ave.
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> Waterbury, CT 06708
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> mllewell at biblio.org
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> Erica Rohlfs
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> Education Specialist
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> Equinox Software Inc. / The Open Source Experts
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> Phone: 770-709-5572 | 1-877-OPEN-ILS (673-6457) x5572
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> Email: erohlfs at esilibrary.com
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