[Koha] Staging and matching authority records

[Christopher Davis]

Ian,

Joy's correct, while MARC authority records can have ISBNs, they
typically do not. Sorry to lead you astray :-$

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Christopher Davis, MLS
Systems & E-Services Librarian
Uintah County Library
cgdavis at uintah.utah.gov
(435) 789-0091 ext.261
uintahlibrary.org
basinlibraries.org
facebook.com/uintahcountylibrary


On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 9:29 AM, Joy Nelson <joy at bywatersolutions.com> wrote:
> Ian-
> If you have the matching rule set up to match on the 010 subfield a using
> the LC-cardnumber index, then the matching should happen if
> 1. your authority records are indexed
> 2. you have 010$a in your existing records AND in the incoming records (and
> matches do exist).
>
> (I'm assuming here that you've also specified the incoming file is an
> authority file, not a bibliographic file. )
>
> I'm not sure that using a 020 will assist you in matching as that is a
> bibliographic tag, not an authority tag.  And I do not believe the 020 is
> indexed for authority records.  A tag must be indexed in order to be used as
> a match point.
>
> When troubleshooting, I generally find a record I know should match and then
> look at the 010$a in the incoming file and existing record to see if there
> is anything that would potentially cause the match to fail.
>
> -Joy
>
>
> On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 9:22 AM, Christopher Davis <cgdavis at uintah.utah.gov>
> wrote:
>>
>> Ian,
>>
>> Off the top of my head, I thought that you might want to tried adding
>> MARC authority field 020 (ISBN) as a match point to your matching
>> point rule? Not every MARC authority record will have a LCCN (although
>> most do).
>>
>> Good luck and Merry Christmas,
>>
>> Christopher Davis, MLS
>> Systems & E-Services Librarian
>> Uintah County Library
>> cgdavis at uintah.utah.gov
>> (435) 789-0091 ext.261
>> uintahlibrary.org
>> basinlibraries.org
>> facebook.com/uintahcountylibrary
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 9:06 AM, Ian Bays <ian.bays at ptfs-europe.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Hi.
>> >
>> > We are trying to stage some authority records to match existing
>> > authority
>> > records to overlay them.
>> > We have used the matching for bibliographic records successfully before
>> > but
>> > are having difficulty with matching authority records.
>> > The version of Koha is 3.20.01.000 and we are MARC21 using dom indexing
>> > and
>> > icu chains.
>> >
>> > Before getting into the details, can I ask if anyone has any experience
>> > of
>> > matching authorities (staging and managing) with any success?
>> >
>> > We are trying to match on the 010$a and looking at the matching rules
>> > documentation in:
>> >
>> > http://manual.koha-community.org/3.20/en/catadmin.html#recordmatchingrules
>> >
>> > Thanks in advance.
>> >
>> > Ian
>> >
>> > --
>> > Ian Bays
>> > Director of Projects, PTFS Europe Limited
>> > Content Management and Library Solutions
>> >
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