[Koha] Problem importing authorities (authority type gets overwritten) SOLVED

[Željko Puškarić]

Thanks Fabio

Helped by your explenation I managed to import authorities and can 
assign them to cataloging records. Didn't check if imported records are 
properly linked to authorities yet (looks like they are not linked 
properly) because I'm now trying to create new cataloging record and 
check MARC of the record to find out the way to import biblio that would 
link properly to authorities.
My biblio database just contains imported items so I can test it for a 
while.

With Best Regards
Željko

On 10/30/2013 05:17 PM, Fabio Tiana wrote:
> Hi there Željko,
>
> I solved my problems in the meanwhile (thanks Zeno for the tip!), but 
> BE CAREFUL: I'm still testing it and I recommend you not to try it on 
> a production system yet since I'm not sure it's the correct way to set 
> things up.
>
> Is OSB a built-in authority type or a custom one? I'm sorry but I 
> don't know what language your sample data is.
>
> I'm asking this question because I have found that when you create a 
> framework for a new authority type, the list of codes of 
> GuessAuthTypeCode in AuthoritiesMarc.pm doesn't get updated. This 
> seems to affect the importing process, overwriting 152$b as you 
> noticed and therefore putting your authority records along the Subject 
> (Common Name) ones in your case.
>
> As for the linking between auths and bibs, I solved that too, but I'm 
> going to write it down in its own "thread" tomorrow (sorry but I'm 
> quite busy these weeks!). Furthermore, if I understood well, it 
> doesn't bother you anyway. :)
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Fabio
>
>
>
> 2013/10/30 Željko Puškarić <zpuskaric at sabor.hr 
> <mailto:zpuskaric at sabor.hr>>
>
>     Hallo to everyone,
>
>     I am having a problem importing authorities into Koha 3.12.5
>     (Debian Wheezy packaged version). When I import authorities into
>     Koha the Authority type gets replaced from what i put into field
>     152b (where Koha keeps authority type code) to SNC. Because of
>     that I can't search for authorities through their authority types
>     but can find them searching all authority types and default
>     authority type. It looks to me that it might have something in
>     common with the problem that Fabio Tian is having (see links
>     between bibs and authorities lost for custom authority types since
>     upgrade from 3.6
>     <http://news.gmane.org/find-root.php?message_id=%3c1381085012966%2d5773622.post%40n5.nabble.com%3e>).
>     Here is an example of the records imported:
>
>     001     000052
>     152     ^bOSB
>     250     ^aŠtefan^bLjubica
>     461     ^1000001
>     900     000052
>     901     ^6a
>     909     2
>     980     HDS
>
>     001     000053
>     152     ^bOSB
>     250     ^aKrišto^bJure
>     461     ^1000001
>     900     000053
>     901     ^6a
>     909     2
>     980     HDS
>
>     Those have been converted to a mrc file which passed MarcEdit test
>     and imported into Koha.
>     Authority type is OSB and gets changed to SNC. I am using UNIMARC.
>     OSB authority framework lists 001, 152^b, 250^abc, 330^67a, 450^ab
>     and 900
>
>     Regards,
>
>     Željko
>
>
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