[Koha] Authorities help

[Alejandro Tiraboschi]

Authorities are great, but I think that don't work well in Koha. See below
my post on May 5 (nobody answer).
Bye, Alejandro Tiraboschi.

"
Hi: I have a question related with searching when koha has authorities
enabled.
In the OPAC
http://biblio.bmayor.famaf.unc.edu.ar (http://biblio.bmayor.unc.edu.ar in
the near future)
you can  Browse by
Subject<http://biblio.bmayor.famaf.unc.edu.ar/cgi-bin/koha/opac-authorities-home.pl>
 (switch previously to english) for example "POESIA" and you get some
authority records, in particular

$aPOESIA
      *used for/see from:* GENERO LIRICO
      *used for/see from:* GENERO POETICO
      *see also:* GENEROS LITERARIOS
      *see also:* VERSIFICACION
      *see also:* CLASIFICACION DE LOS VERSOS
      *see also:* CLASIFICACION DE LAS
ESTROFAS<http://biblio.bmayor.famaf.unc.edu.ar/cgi-bin/koha/opac-authoritiesdetail.pl?authid=4488>
*
*
*The biblios linked to/from this authority are 212. If you search "poesia"
in the usual way (without using authorities) you  get a lot of records
(including those 212) and it is ok.  The problem is, in my opinion, when you
search for a "non used term", for example "GENERO LIRICO", because you get
a No Result found!. I think  the correct answer should be, at least, that
you get all the records that link to the authority record "POESIA". If not,
the autorithy system has no sense (o very little) for the OPAC user.*

*My question is: *
*Do Koha work in this way or is a problem of missconfiguration? *
complementary:
Is it possible to configure/modify Koha/Zebra in such way that the usual
search works with the non used terms?

Bye. Thanks in advance.
"

On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 10:48 PM, Chris Nighswonger <
cnighswonger at foundations.edu> wrote:

> Hi Kathy,
>
> On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 9:38 PM, kdr at ckls.org <kdr at ckls.org> wrote:
> > The Koha set up is somewhat clunky, but is at least a beginning in trying
> > to make things standardized. The first improvement I would suggest is the
> > ability to import LC authority headings into Koha...
>
> I think this is a great enhancement idea. Something similar to the
> marc import tool or possibly similar to the z3950 biblio search.
> Would you mind opening an enhancement request at http://bugs.koha.org
> so that we can keep track of it and possibly garner some sponsorship
> for it?
>
> Kind Regards,
> Chris
>
> Christopher Nighswonger
> Faculty Member
> Network & Systems Director
> Foundations Bible College & Seminary
> www.foundations.edu
> www.fbcradio.org
>
>
> > Original Message:
> > -----------------
> > From: scott scott at sedc.k12.ut.us
> > Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 10:05:07 -0600
> > To: koha at lists.katipo.co.nz
> > Subject: [Koha] Authorities help
> >
> >
> > What are the authorities for? I cant find a explanation for them, I am
> > trying to edit the 100 $a field, i figured out how to add authorities,
> > do a search for that authority to stick it in the 100$a field, but whats
> > the point? I could just turn them off, would it have a great affect on
> > things?
> >
> > Thanks. For those that reply.
> >
> >
> > -Scott
> >
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