Paul, Thank you for your advice on trying the record matching rules. My institution actually already employs the record matching rules to match incoming MARC records on ISBN, but after reading the help file on these rules, I could not discover how to sequence multiple match points. When I looked at the rules again, I realized that the way to do what I wanted to do was staring me in the face. What I needed to use was the "Add match point" link found on the first match point. SORRY FOR THE FALSE ALARM. Christopher Davis Systems & E-Services Librarian Uintah County Library cgdavis@uintah.utah.gov (435) 789-0091 <14357890091> ext.261 uintahlibrary.org basinlibraries.org facebook.com/uintahcountylibrary instagram.com/uintahcountylibrary On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 3:32 PM, Paul A <paul.a@navalmarinearchive.com> wrote:
On 2017-09-25 03:31 PM, Christopher Davis wrote:
Dear Colleagues,
I know that Koha can match the ISBNs of imported MARC records with the ISBNs of existing records, but is there a way to configure a record matching rule to try to match more than one match point at a time (for example try to match ISBN, then try ISSN, then try LCCN, then try OCLC number, then try standard number, then try publisher number)?
Have you tried ==> Administration ==> Record Matching Rules?
We have defined seven rules, mostly the obvious ones e.g. ISBN, ISSN (we don't use OCLC -- can't afford them -- and I'm not sure what you call 'standard number'), author, title, publisher, pub date and manufacture date) and then refined them with dates from 008 etc. It takes a little time to fine tune the flexibility. It gets a very few false positives "Are you sure this isn't a duplicate?" but otherwise appears to be extremely reliable.
We dropped LCCN matching -- many of our older books (we're basically an international archival library) don't have one, and the regex "treatment" of leading spaces, hyphens and suffixes became CPU cycle-heavy for minimum joy.
YMMV and HTH. Best -- P. _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz https://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha