All, This brings me to a question we've been grappling with here, and that is how/whether to get Koha to work with authorities. We had used link_bibs_to_authorities.pl but found that, as Jared indicated, very few of our imported records actually did link. Most didn't. I would like to get a sense of whether libraries are using authorities in Koha, and if so, how? Were the headings locally established or were they purchased? In other words, how were they generated? Please contact me off list if that is more convenient, and/or this is something that no one else might be interested in. Thanks! Linda On 4/18/2011 9:55 AM, Jared Camins-Esakov wrote:
Linda,
au: searches use text matching. an: searches use the authority links. Imported records never (or almost never) have authority links, so when you upgrade to 3.4 (due out very soon!) you'll probably want to change the UseAuthoritiesForTracings to "Don't use," so that the tracings don't generate links using the (incomplete) an: searches.
Regards, Jared
On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 10:49 AM, Linda Culberson <lculber@mdah.state.ms.us <mailto:lculber@mdah.state.ms.us>> wrote:
All, I may be misunderstanding how some of the links in Koha work, or we could have a problem with our authorities. Either way, I'd appreciate any help and/or insight. In Koha, if I do just a general keyword search for "Mississippi Dept of Transportation" I get 180 results. If I do an author search I get 150 results
If I click on one of the links for which that department is the author, and then click on its "by" link it goes to an:7261 and I only get 16 results. Some of those are the department as subject and others as it as author.
I thought au was the author index, and am assuming it is using the authorities?
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance. -- Linda Culberson lculber@mdah.state.ms.us <mailto:lculber@mdah.state.ms.us> Archives and Records Services Division Ms. Dept. of Archives & History P. O. Box 571 Jackson, MS 39205-0571 Telephone: 601/576-6873 Facsimile: 601/576-6824
-- Jared Camins-Esakov Freelance bibliographer, C & P Bibliography Services, LLC (phone) +1 (917) 727-3445 (e-mail) jcamins@cpbibliography.com <mailto:jcamins@cpbibliography.com> (web) http://www.cpbibliography.com/
-- Linda Culberson lculber@mdah.state.ms.us Archives and Records Services Division Ms. Dept. of Archives & History P. O. Box 571 Jackson, MS 39205-0571 Telephone: 601/576-6873 Facsimile: 601/576-6824