[Koha] Authorities difficulties

[Nicole Engard]

Joe,

The problem is that the cataloging rules state that we should put a
comma there ... that's probably what's causing a problem - the
annoying rules ;)

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Nicole C. Engard
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2009/7/24 Joe Atzberger <ohiocore at gmail.com>:
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> 2009/7/24 Ondrej Mlecka <omlecka at gmail.com>
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I would like to ask two questions on cataloguing with authorities.
>>
>> 1. The first one regards the MergeAuthoritiesOnUpdate function.
>> I have a Personal Name Authority (for ex. "Givord, Robert"), and I use it
>> in bibliogr. records in 700 field (always MARC21), once as translator (700$e
>> - relator term - "tr."), once as author of foreword (700$e:"pref.") etc.
>> When I change the name in Authorities (for example because I add a date of
>> the death, or there is a mistake in the name) and I have the
>> MergeAuthoritiesOnUpdate preferrence ON, it deletes all the relator terms in
>> the bibliogr. records. Is there any way how to update bibliogr. records
>> without deleting the contents of all the 700$e subfields?
>> Obviously, I could have a special authority for Robert Givord as
>> translator, another one for R.G. as author of the foreword etc., but this
>> doesn't seem to me to be a good solution.
>>
>> 2. The second question regards cataloging bibl. records. I want to
>> catalogue a book with a name of a translator. So I choose the name from
>> authorities and I want to add 700$e subfield. For this, I need to add a
>> comma at the end of previous subfield, so as to have, for ex. 700 1#
>> $aGivord, Robert[comma]$etr. But the MARC editor doesn't allow any change in
>> 700$a subfield.
>> I could turn the BiblioAddsAuthorities preference ON, so as to allow the
>> input in 700$a field, but this would create automatically one authority for
>> the person as a translator, another one as an author of a foreword etc.
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> For #2, I'm not a cataloger, but I think you should add as little
> punctuation as possible.  If the display of the subfields together is
> unattractive, then that is a display problem, not something to fix by
> changing data that was correct before, just to help it look nicer up next to
> a separate subfield.  Also, I think BiblioAddsAuthorities would add a
> duplicate entry, with the new one having a comma.  That seems pretty clearly
> to be the wrong approach.
>
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> Joe Atzberger
> LibLime - Open Source Library Solutions
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