[Koha] Marc21 uniform-title and koha

[Hernandez, Heather]

Hi, all--

Yes, much about this is a leftover from card catalogs, when the author (100
$a) would be printed on one line, and the uniform title (240) printed in
brackets below it, to allow the card filer to collocate all titles together
in the manual file.  Uniform title main entries (from the 130, e.g., Bible)
were often then interfiled in the author-title card catalog.

Koha seems to do as well as other ILS's I've used, in that a human being is
a necessary link between the authority record's 100 $a & $t to a 100/240
combination in the bib record during cataloging, but I have to admit I
haven't explored Koha's functions fully since I create all my original
records on OCLC.  (I'm hoping to change that when the new cataloging
interface is available in Koha!)  I'm also curious as to how titles now
collocated by uniform titles will look if the ByWater development for
FRBR-izing  happens.

Our Koha catalog handles this keyword search pretty well:  melville moby
dick
And one does get "Did you mean: Melville, Herman, 1819-1891. Moby Dick"
<http://keys.bywatersolutions.com/cgi-bin/koha/opac-search.pl?q=an%3D3578>
which, if clicked, does retrieve the 16 most relevant results (rather than
the previous 42), so the author/uniform title authority record seems to be
doing its job with OPAC searching.

And, yes, MARC21 is wrong in many ways--it was developed in the 1960s when
automating catalogs was very different--but that's why I'm very interested
in the development of Bibframe!

Cheerio,
h2

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Heather Hernandez
Technical Services Librarian
San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park Research Center
415-561-7032, heather_hernandez at nps.gov
http://www.nps.gov/safr/learn/historyculture/museum-collections.htm

"The sailor does not pray for wind, he learns to sail."--Gustaf Lindborg

On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 10:42 AM, James Weinheimer <
weinheimer.jim.l at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 9/22/2015 6:48 PM, Gaetan Boisson wrote:
>
>> So we would have this in the bibliographic record :
>> 100 0\  $9authid $aHomer.
>> 240 10 $9authid $aIliad
>>
>> And this in the authority record :
>> 001  authid
>> 100  $aHomer $tIliad
>>
>> I would have thought that the 240 should be linked to an uniform title
>> record (with the header in 130), but this kind of authority cannot have
>> an author name. http://www.loc.gov/marc/bibliographic/bd130.html
>>
>>  From what i understand, we should be filling both 100 and 240 in the
>> biblio from the 100 in the authority in this situation, with subfields
>> from the authority going in different subfields in the bibliographic
>> record (namely the $t will end up in a $a). As far as i know, Koha
>> really doesn't do that.
>>
>
> As far as how it works in Koha, I haven't got a clue--in Koha or any other
> ILS. In my own opinion, MARC21 has been wrong for a long, long time because
> it splits the 100$a$t in the authority records into 1xx/240 in the
> bibliographic records. I have been told that the reason is very old (from
> the 1960s) that it was the only way to allow search and display of authors
> and titles separately. This was from the card catalog, where you could
> search for the author as main entry or the main title. In the added
> entries, it was always a matter that you had to search the author's name
> and the title did not work.
>
> Of course, we are well into the second decade of the 21st century, and
> these things should be taken care of.
>
> In short: I don't know. Other, wiser heads will have to help!
>
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