[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Another Serials Prediction Question

[Patrick, Irene]

Now I have another serials prediction question.  I've got a quarterly that has issue numbers but no volume numbers.  The issue numbers are continuous.  The Evergreen DokuWiki (https://wiki.evergreen-ils.org/doku.php?id=acq:serials:patterns) provides a sample code for this pattern under Quarterly:  "Quarterly Increments continuously without Volume."  The code is:

["2","0","8","1","a","no.","i","(year)","j","(month)","w","q","x","01"]

I have tried using this code but it does not work.  The Issue number stays the same for 4 issues and only then increments, whereas the issue number should be incrementing by 1 for each issue.

I have tried creating my own patterns and have not been able to get them to work either.  They all have the same problem, where the issue number only increments after the fourth issue.  I also tried to insert the $u and $v information, but that had no effect either, probably because the MFHD standard says that they can't be used with the first level of enumeration.  However, the NASIGuide: Serial Holdings states that the top level is assumed to be continuously numbered.  If Evergreen were assuming the top level to be continuously numbered, I would expect the sample pattern code to work.

Does anyone have a pattern that works for a publication with no volume number, only issue numbers?  Or do we have to do a workaround using some dummy top level (which I would prefer not to do)?


[NC_State_Seal PMS 2955]Irene Patrick
Library & Information Management Systems Librarian
N.C. Government & Heritage Library
State Library of North Carolina
N.C. Dept. of Natural and Cultural Resources
(919) 807-7413
irene.patrick at ncdcr.gov<mailto:irene.patrick at ncdcr.gov>

109 E. Jones Street  |  4640 Mail Service Center  |  Raleigh, North Carolina 27699-4600

Email correspondence to and from this address is subject to the
North Carolina Public Records Law and may be disclosed to third parties.
_____________________________________________________________

Facebook<http://www.facebook.com/ncghl>  Twitter<http://www.twitter.com/ncpedia>  YouTube<http://www.youtube.com/statelibrarync>

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://libmail.georgialibraries.org/pipermail/open-ils-general/attachments/20170921/2ed5f79c/attachment-0001.html>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: image001.png
Type: image/png
Size: 58641 bytes
Desc: image001.png
URL: <http://libmail.georgialibraries.org/pipermail/open-ils-general/attachments/20170921/2ed5f79c/attachment-0002.png>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: image003.png
Type: image/png
Size: 18774 bytes
Desc: image003.png
URL: <http://libmail.georgialibraries.org/pipermail/open-ils-general/attachments/20170921/2ed5f79c/attachment-0003.png>