See and See Also References in Koha
Dear Paul et al., We are one of the libraries in the U.S. that are keenly interested in the development of Koha versions 1.3.x and 1.4 as a replacement for our current automation system, and we are working closely with Ron Wickersham in Santa Rosa, CA on this. But one of the features our current system has that is very important is the ability to have "see" references and "see also" references in the catalog that result from subject and name authority work done by our cataloguers and by the Library of Congress. Has any thought been given on the developers list to having this ability in Koha? Larry Currie -- Lawrence W. Currie User Services Librarian California Academy of Sciences Golden Gate Park San Francisco, CA 94118 lcurrie@calacademy.org (415) 750-7108 (415) 750-7106 fax http://www.calacademy.org/research/library/
On Fri, 1 Nov 2002, Larry Currie wrote:
We are one of the libraries in the U.S. that are keenly interested in the development of Koha versions 1.3.x and 1.4 as a replacement for our current automation system, and we are working closely with Ron Wickersham in Santa Rosa, CA on this. But one of the features our current system has that is very important is the ability to have "see" references and "see also" references in the catalog that result from subject and name authority work done by our cataloguers and by the Library of Congress. Has any thought been given on the developers list to having this ability in Koha?
Can you explain what this functionality does? I'm guessing that it ties one subject heading to one or more other subject headings. A "SEE" reference would tell the user to look at the reference instead of this heading (implying that this heading shows nothing?), and a "SEE ALSO" would tell the user to look at the reference in addition to this heading. What else are these "SEE" and "SEE ALSO" references used for, besides subject headings? Are they stored in a MARC record somewhere, and, if so, where? Steve.
Larry Currie wrote:
Dear Paul et al.,
We are one of the libraries in the U.S. that are keenly interested in the development of Koha versions 1.3.x and 1.4 as a replacement for our current automation system, and we are working closely with Ron Wickersham in Santa Rosa, CA on this. But one of the features our current system has that is very important is the ability to have "see" references and "see also" references in the catalog that result from subject and name authority work done by our cataloguers and by the Library of Congress. Has any thought been given on the developers list to having this ability in Koha?
Larry Currie
David Bigwood wrote :
There is a separate database holding MARC authority records. These records can control all access points, authors, titles and subjects. Most of the time they have SEE and SEE ALSO references. At times they have longer explanations. They also may contain notes to the cataloger. For example, a authority record for a series might contain a note telling the cataloger if they are each classed by subject or if they are collected and classed as a group. They are structured very much like MARC bibliographic records. http://www.loc.gov/marc/authority/ecadhome.html In the more costly systems the authority records are linked to the bibliographic record, so that a change in the authority file automatically changes instances in the bibliographic file.
Hi from France, everybody, Happy to see that so many libraries are interested in koha. I'm happy to answer positively to your question : the "uptodate-unstable-koha" on my computers begins to deal nicely with authorities, and "see" links... Some details : * The authorities/thesaurus table exists. * In the authority table, you can define as many category of authorities, and as many entries for each category as you want. Every entry can be "hierarchised" (for example : you can have "Geography", then "Geography -- Europe", then "Geography -- Europe -- France", then "Geography -- europe -- France -- Marseille", and find where I live :-) ) * When you define your own MARC use, you can link a subfield to a "authority category". If you do, the subfield must be entered through the authority table. I'll add soon (next week) a parameter that says if you can or can't enter a "non-authority value" in a subfield, and if the librarian can "on the fly" add a value in the authority table. All of those functionnalities ARE in CVS. They should be in the 1.3.2 version coming soon (before nov. 15, hoping nov. 8) What's is not done but should be added soon is : * MARC search * "see" links in MARCdetail of a biblio. But the DB handle this, so it should be easy to do. For David : In the more costly systems the authority records are linked to the bibliographic record, so that a change in the authority file automatically changes instances in the bibliographic file. You'll have to change this sentence soon, as i'm planning to have this in koha, and it won't become costly ;-))). Not very easy, but not too hard neither... FYI : My roadmap : version 1.4.0, stable with all MARC functionnalities is expected for 2003, january. Note i haven't "import MARC authority" functionnality planned (except for frenchies, but that's another story...) -- Paul
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