[Koha] Duplicate authorities on dataload

[Stefano Bargioni]

On Jan 27, 2011, at 15:34 , Mike McCormack wrote:

> Hi all,
>  
> I am converting some bibs and authorities from another system into koha and I have ended up with duplicate authorities on the koha database. I wonder if someone could point out where I went wrong or if koha is behaving as designed:
> Here are the steps I followed:
>  
> 1.      Loaded a file of 6,500 Marc Bib records using bulkmarcimport.pl
> 2.      Rebuilt the Zebra index -b
> 3.      Loaded a file of Authorities using bulkmarcimport.pl – As an example, this file contains 6 authority records for “Pullman, Philip”
> 4.      Rebuilt the Zebra index -a
> 5.      Ran link_bibs_to_authorities.pl
> 6.      When I check the personal name authorities there are 6 “Pullman, Philip” entries, all linked to 0 bibs
>  
> Do I have to dedup the authority file before I import it (not an easy task)?

I think so.
SB

>  
> Any help would be appreciated
>  
> Mike
>  
>  
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