[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Another Serials Prediction Question

[Daniel Wells]

Hello Irene,

If "no." is the top level, and it just increments forever, then you don't
need a restart at all.  So, something like this (untested):

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

Does that do what you are after?  If so, I can update the wiki page you
referenced.

Dan


On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 4:26 PM, Patrick, Irene <irene.patrick at ncdcr.gov>
wrote:

> 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)?
>
>
>
>
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