[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Authorities

[Yamil Suarez]

Eva,

First of all, I am not a cataloger so I may get some cataloging
concepts wrong. I may be able to help a little bit with your first
question since my institution provided funding for the control sets
development. Though we did not design it. My understanding is that
Evergreen looks at a particular fixed field in authority records to
determine the control set it will assign to it. Within the EG
authority MARC editor this fixed field is labeled as "Subj,"  but it
is often known as 'Subject Heading Thesaurus' or as "Subject heading
system/thesaurus."

In this LoC page it is listed as being position 11...
http://www.loc.gov/marc/authority/ad008.html

So it looks that some or all your authority records may have that
Subj/thesaurus fixed field set to "n."

Before I give you more advice, can you tell me what thesaurus value(s)
you picked for your custom authority control set for use with Czech
national authorities?

For example these are some of the Library of Congress list of thesaurus values:

'' = Alternate no attempt to code
a = Library of Congress Subject Headings
b = LC subject headings for children’s literature
c = Medical Subject Headings
d = National Agricultural Library subject authority file
k = Canadian Subject Headings
n = Not applicable
r = Art and Architecture Thesaurus
s = Sears List of Subject Headings
v = Repertoire de vedettes-matiere
z = Other
| = No attempt to code

Thanks,
Yamil




On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 12:41 AM, Cerninakova Eva <cernin at jabok.cz> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> We are currently  working on implementation of Czech national authorities to
> Evergreen. We have already done a lot of work but yet new and new problems
> to be solved  emerge before us ;-) .
>  I would like to ask you for a help with  two questions:
>
> 1)  How is it possible to define a controls set  for authority batch import?
> So far we have defined new control set for national authorities, we have
> assigned  thesauri to it and addend authority fields. Than we have
> successfully  imported MARC XML file containing Czech national  authorities.
> The problem is that each of the imported authority record have been
> automatically  assigned to the thesaurus „n“ (which stands for „not
> applicable“) defined in Library of Congress control  set.  How shall we
> define the proper thesaurus and control set? Is it possible to define the
> thesaurus and control set for the import file  (e.g. in the import script)?
> Or is it necessary to add appropriate thesaurus code somewhere to  MARC
> authority record  in the import file before the import?
>
> 2) My second question is how do you provide the regular batch update of
> existing authority record in Evergreen? Could you share your workflow with
> us? As we consider possible  scenario for updating authority records that
> already exist in the Evergreen without breaking the  linking to
> bibliographic records any idea would by very helpful for us.
>
> Thanks a lot
> Eva
>
>
>
>
>
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Yamil Suarez, MCS
Library System Administrator/Developer

Stan Getz Library
Berklee College of Music
1140 Boylston St
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ysuarez at berklee.edu
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