Hello Mr. Rivikantha, I followed similar way in Koha 3.14 as you did. If you have for disposal separate Authorities files for authors, corporations, geographic, topics, chronological, meetings, genre/forms, ... import them as first in compressed format ISO 2709 (.mrc). Convert it to UTF-8 coding. For this you can use MarcEdit Program http://marcedit.reeset.net/tutorials. This authorities files can have additional useful information (e.g. Narrower term, Broader term, Relative term, UsedFor term, Use term, Biographic data for authors, etc. abide to MARC21 Authority standard, see http://www.loc.gov/marc/ authority/). Authorities during the import are newly numbered in the field 001 beginning with 1, followed by 2, 3, 4 ....etc. After this import, you will be able to search them in OPAC Authority search. They are stored in the MySQL table auth_header and contemporary they are indexed by Zebra. You must wait appx.. 10 min. until the cron job planned in /var/spool/cron/ crontabs/root (*/10 * * * * __KOHA_USER__ $KOHA_CRON_PATH/../migration_ tools/rebuild_zebra.pl -b -a -z >/dev/null) rebuilds Zebra indexes. You can display your crontabs by command /var/spool/cron/crontabs# crontab -u root -l . Check this step by searching in imported Authorities. Then import Bibliographic records in the format ISO2709 to Koha, with system preference AutoCreateAuthorities = NoAllow and BiblioAddsAuthorities = NoAllow. No new authorities will then be added. Then set preference UseAuthoritiesForTracings = Don't use authority record numbers instead of text strings for searches from subject tracings. Then run the script link_bibs_to_authorities.pl in this manner: # export PERL5LIB=$PERL5LIB:/usr/share/koha/lib # export KOHA_CONF=/etc/koha/sites/name_of_koha_instance/koha-conf.xml # /usr/share/koha/bin/link_bibs_to_authorities.pl This should compare text in Biblio (fields 100$a, 110$a, 650$a,..etc) with Authority texts. If it matches, the number of Authority will be added to $9 subfield in biblio fields100, 110, 111, ...650,....etc) and these are the desired links. If some Authorities are missing in authority database after that, you can create them setting the preferences: AutoCreateAuthorities = Allow and BiblioAddsAuthorities = Allow and run again # /usr/share/koha/bin/link_bibs_to_authorities.pl The missing authorities will be created in simplest form, but each bibliorecord will crate its own authority, so that many of them will be the same and will be multiplied for several times, e.g. topics. Don't be unhappy, you can unify them by setting preference linkermodule=LastMatch and by repeating the script. for several times: # /usr/share/koha/bin/link_ bibs_to_authorities.pl . The last occurrence of authority will be used many times, the earlier occurrence 0 times (unused). Then run the script # /usr/ share/koha/bin/migration_tools/remove_unused_authorities.pl aut=TOPIC (PERSO _NAME, MEETI_NAME, see table auth_types in MySQL) The unused authorities should disappear. That is all, how simple! Best Regards Bohdan Smilauer Prague Czechia, EU ---------- Původní zpráva ---------- Od: Rivikantha Herath <rkrivi@yahoo.com> Komu: Koha mailing list <koha@lists.katipo.co.nz> Datum: 21. 1. 2015 8:19:41 Předmět: [Koha] Importing Authority data "Dear all, My name is Rivikantha and I work as a computer programmer inUniversity of Peradeniya main library. We are in the process of implementing Koha as our integrated library managementsystem. Currently we have imported datafrom the current library management system to Koha via a marc file and all thebibliographic data seems to be in order. I can search a book and all the dataseems to have imported successfully. But authority data such as Author Name has not beenimported. I cannot search authorities which results in 0 results. · Does I have to import authority data separately orhas the marc import process has a failure. · If so what is the procedure to import authoritydata from the current system.· Is there a way to generate authority data frombibliographic data. I am currently facing this problem and our data migrationprocess has come to a complete stop. We have to make the system live by april.So any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you Rivikantha Computer Programmer. _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha"