<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Jan 27, 2011, at 15:34 , Mike McCormack wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Monaco; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="Section1" style="page: Section1; "><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><font size="3" color="#1f497d" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">Hi all,<o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><font size="3" color="#1f497d" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><font size="3" color="#1f497d" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">I am converting some bibs and authorities from another system into<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="SpellE">koha</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and I have ended up with duplicate authorities on the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="SpellE">koha</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>database. I wonder if someone could point out where I went wrong or if<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="SpellE">koha</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>is behaving as designed:<o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><font size="3" color="#1f497d" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">Here are the steps I followed:<o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><font size="3" color="#1f497d" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 36pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-indent: -18pt; "><font size="3" color="#1f497d" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><span>1.<font size="1" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></font></span></span></font><font color="#1f497d" face="Calibri"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">Loaded a file of 6,500 Marc Bib records using<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://bulkmarcimport.pl/" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">bulkmarcimport.pl</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 36pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-indent: -18pt; "><font size="3" color="#1f497d" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><span>2.<font size="1" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></font></span></span></font><font color="#1f497d" face="Calibri"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">Rebuilt the Zebra index -b<o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 36pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-indent: -18pt; "><font size="3" color="#1f497d" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><span>3.<font size="1" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></font></span></span></font><font color="#1f497d" face="Calibri"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">Loaded a file of Authorities using<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://bulkmarcimport.pl/" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">bulkmarcimport.pl</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>– As an example, this file contains 6 authority records for “Pullman, Philip”<o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 36pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-indent: -18pt; "><font size="3" color="#1f497d" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><span>4.<font size="1" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></font></span></span></font><font color="#1f497d" face="Calibri"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">Rebuilt the Zebra index -a<o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 36pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-indent: -18pt; "><font size="3" color="#1f497d" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><span>5.<font size="1" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></font></span></span></font><font color="#1f497d" face="Calibri"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">Ran link_bibs_to_authorities.pl<o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 36pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-indent: -18pt; "><font size="3" color="#1f497d" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><span>6.<font size="1" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></font></span></span></font><font color="#1f497d" face="Calibri"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">When I check the personal name authorities there are 6 “Pullman, Philip” entries, all linked to 0 bibs<o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><font size="3" color="#1f497d" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><font size="3" color="#1f497d" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">Do I have to<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="SpellE">dedup</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>the authority file before I import it (not an easy task)?</span></font></div></div></div></span></blockquote><div><br></div>I think so.</div><div>SB</div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Monaco; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="Section1" style="page: Section1; "><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><font size="3" color="#1f497d" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><font size="3" color="#1f497d" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><font size="3" color="#1f497d" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">Any help would be appreciated<o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><font size="3" color="#1f497d" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><font size="3" color="#1f497d" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">Mike<o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><font size="3" color="#1f497d" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><font size="3" color="#1f497d" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>Koha mailing list <a href="http://koha-community.org/" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">http://koha-community.org</a><br><a href="mailto:Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz</a><br><a href="http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha" style="color: blue; 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