[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Authority records

[Cerninakova Eva]

Hi Dan,


thanks a lot for the helpful information.

Eva






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Mgr. Eva Cerniňáková
cernin at jabok.cz
Tel. +420 211 222 409

Knihovna Jabok
http:/knihovna.jabok.cuni.cz <http://knihovna.jabok.cz>
Tel.  +420 211 222 410

Jabok - Vyšší odborná škola sociálně pedagogická a teologická
Salmovská 8, 120 00 Praha 2


2015-05-11 21:30 GMT+02:00 Dan Scott <dan at coffeecode.net>:

> Hi Eva:
>
> On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 2:42 PM, Cerninakova Eva <cernin at jabok.cz> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>>
>> We are currently trying to implement Czech National authorities into
>> Evergreen and  have some question concerning authority records  (and may be
>> contribution to the debate on authorities during Evergreen conference in
>> Hood River) .
>>
>> 1) Does Evergreen support Z39.50 update function? Libraries in the Czech
>> Republic are involved in creation of  authority records s and  the issue of
>> Z39.50 update  is crucial  because tool providing update of records of the
>> Czech national  authorities by cooperating libraries  is based on Z39.50
>> update function.
>>
>
> No, Evergreen does not support any Z39.50 update functions at this time,
> and as far as I know there are no plans to support update via Z39.50.
>
>
>> 2) Is it possible to replace Evergreen system authority number in field
>> 001 with Czech National authority control number? According to the  Czech
>> national cataloging practice in the authority record the field 001 is used
>> for Czech national authority control number. It is of course possible to
>> use field 016 (National Bibliographic Agency Control Number), but as the
>> cooperation is based on „living“ update via Z39.50, moving authority
>> control number  might be   complication and potential barrier to
>> cooperation.
>>
>
> If you disable the "maintain control numbers" global flag, then this might
> be possible; testing required. Note that that would also affect how control
> numbers are maintained for bibliographic records.
>
> If you have administrator access, then you should be able to find this
> setting in the staff client under Admin -> Server Admin -> Global Flags. If
> not, but you have SQL access to the database, it would be "UPDATE
> config.global_flag SET enabled = FALSE WHERE name =
> 'cat.maintain_control_numbers';"
>
> A simplistic approach to preventing control number maintenance for only
> authority records would be to modify the public.maintain_control_numbers()
> database function to check for an authority-record specific flag (something
> like 'cat.maintain_authority_control_numbers') and have that override the
> general global flag.
>
> Dan
>
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