[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Another Serials Prediction Question

[Patrick, Irene]

Dan,

You’re a genius!  This pattern is also working.  Thank you so much!

(Sorry for the delayed reply.  I’ve been tied up in other work most of the day today.)

It had not occurred to me that I could leave out the Calendar Change.  When I think back to our years on Dynix—20 years ago and more, when I was first learning about all of this—as I recall the Calendar Change in Dynix was literally that—it controlled when the calendar dates on the piece rolled over.  It never occurred to me that Evergreen would know to change the year if there was no $x in the pattern.

Thank you again for your help!  And hopefully I will get the hang of setting up patterns that require close adherence to the MARC standard.


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From: Daniel Wells [mailto:dbwells at gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2017 5:09 PM
To: Evergreen Discussion Group <open-ils-general at list.georgialibraries.org>
Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Another Serials Prediction Question

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<mailto: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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